US fertility rate plummets by a quarter in less than 20 years — and 25% of births are now to immigrant women

Bye bye, baby. Fertility rates among American women have plummeted by almost a quarter in less than two decades and are set to fall further in the coming years, as roughly one in four births in the US ...
Pew Research Center

Is U.S. fertility at an all-time low? It depends how you measure it

Over the past year, many news outlets have reported that the birth rate in the United States has hit an all-time low. This trend has led some experts to worry about the economic consequences of a ...
New York Post

US fertility rate slumped to new low in 2024 — here’s why it keeps dropping

The fertility rate in the US dropped to an all-time low in 2024 with less than 1.6 kids per woman, new federal data released Thursday shows. The US was once among only a few developed countries with a ...

The 15 countries with the highest birth rates — and the 15 with the lowest

The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See the countries where birth rates are the highest and ...