The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...

The United States' birth rate has been declining for years - even decades. In fact, the fertility rate was as high as 3.5 children per woman in the 1960s, but plummeted to 1.7 by 1976 before rising to ...

In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children, on average. By 2014, that figure had fallen to around two. As of 2023, it was just 1.6. That means that the population is no ...

The United States, once an outlier among industrialized countries with respect to its high birth rate, has caught up with the low fertility trend. As birth rates decline even among its large immigrant ...