By Hannah Ritchie for Our World in Data Fertility rates — which measure the average number of children per woman — have been falling worldwide. Since 1950, global fertility rates have halved, from ...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and new federal data shows that another drop last year brought the rate down to the lowest on record.

The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year, according ...

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As global birth rates continue to decline, the Trump administration has announced that it is considering policies aimed at reversing this trajectory for the United States. According to a recent report ...

The U.S. fertility rate has fallen once again — and while the decrease is a very modest 1% for 2025 compared to 2024, it ...