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Countries all over the world are facing declining birth rates, sparking fears there will one day be more elderly people than working-age people to support them. For example, in the United States, the ...

A woman at an abortion-rights protest in New York in 2023 holds a pregnancy test. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, according to provisional data ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with ...

Form error message goes here. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. For years, people concerned about falling birth rates have warned of the economic ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The newest March of Dimes report gives the US a D+ rating on preterm birth rates. The Conversation — Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a seemingly low-risk pregnancy, I unexpectedly began to bleed.