Canada’s total fertility rate (the average number of births per woman) reached a record low of 1.25 children per woman in 2024, new data shows. The data, published in a new report by Statistics Canada ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...

Utah’s fertility rate has dropped again, according to federal data. The decline also means Utah’s rank nationally has fallen in comparison to other states. In 2022, only three states had a higher ...

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. The total fertility rate in the U.S. has been below replacement for the past half-century. Childbearing in the ...

The total fertility rate (TFR) is the most widely used measurement by healthcare organizations and researchers to better understand and predict population trends. It measures the total number of live ...

Many politicians and pundits around the world have raised the alarm in recent years about declining fertility rates. They evoke the ominous specters of imploding populations, a “gray tsunami” of older ...

Leslie Root receives funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) for work on fertility rates. Karen Benjamin Guzzo has received funding from the ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

The data, published in a new report by Statistics Canada last Wednesday, signaled profound changes in the nation's demographic landscape. A rate of 1.25 is well below the replacement threshold of 2.1, ...