The CDC also tracks maternal and infant health characteristics, and found that the rate of C-section deliveries is the highest it’s been since 2013, continuing to increase as it has nearly every year ...

Title X funding appears to be shifting away from contraception. Experts say that's unlikely to change fertility rates.

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 ...

The U.S. general fertility rate fell by 1 percent in 2025, reaching a new record low for another consecutive year according to latest statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

America, like many other countries, is on a path to population decline. The total fertility rate, which measures the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, in the US for 2024 ...

*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the ...

There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” shortly after reentering the White House and declared, “We want more babies.

U.S. births fell 1% in 2025 to about 3.6 million, while Europe's fertility rates remain well below replacement levels.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There’s been a lot of talk about birth rates this year. President Donald Trump dubbed himself the “fertilization president” ...