The declining birth rate has been a major topic of discussion, with governments all over the world trying to find ways to reverse it. There is a constantly evolving discussion about the causes of the ...

According to recent projections, U.S. population growth will slow to zero by 2056.

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 ...

A slowdown in immigration and lower birth rates could crimp the U.S. economy by shrinking the nation's workforce, researchers say ...

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 ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

Immigration crackdowns may be slowing U.S. population growth and reshaping the economy, says Luke Pardue, policy director at the Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group.

Authors: Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University Pronatalism – the belief that low birth ...

As the 2030 Census approaches, the Census Bureau’s 2025 vintage estimates showed that Massachusetts’s population growth has slowed in the last year.

China clocked its lowest birth rate on record in 2025 as its population shrank for the fourth year in a row, deepening a demographic challenge that could drag on the world’s second-largest economy for ...