After years of grinding lower, a widely watched measure of fertility in a country battling significant demographic headwinds ...

The total fertility rate in the United States has been in decline since the start of the Great Recession. Since then, the total fertility rate has fallen far below the replacement level—the level of ...

For decades, the total fertility rate in the United States has been below the replacement fertility rate—the level of fertility necessary for the current generation to replace itself.

Shrinking populations and lack of family formation in many countries, including the United States, have raised concerns about ...

In a world where fertility rates are plummeting, these women are choosing large families — and their reasons go far beyond ...

South Korea has one of the world's most rapidly contracting and aging societies worldwide. After nearly a decade of birth rates in steady decline, South Korea reversed that trend to report a ...

Over the past 15 years, the birth rate in the United States has dropped from 2.1 births per woman to 1.66, well below the birth rate needed to keep the population stable. This trend needs to be ...

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially for women of color.

Tamil Nadu resists the Centre’s Hindi imposition in the form of the NEP’s three-language formula, fuelling a major federalism ...

A recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump to expand access to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, care across the ...

The number of babies born in South Korea has rebounded for the first time in nine years, welcome news for a country grappling ...

A shift in societal norms could prove pivotal in a country that over the past decade has seen its birthrate plummet to the ...