Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that is, below the level needed to sustain the population in the long ...

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. The total fertility rate in the U.S. has been below replacement for the past half-century. Childbearing in the ...

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 total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...

Twenty years ago, Utah had the highest fertility rates in the country. But since 2007, the total fertility rate in Utah has dropped from 2.68 births per woman to 1.80 births. This trend isn’t unique ...

Canada’s total fertility rate (the average number of births per woman) reached a record low of 1.25 children per woman in 2024, new data shows. The data, published in a new report by Statistics Canada ...

The data, published in a new report by Statistics Canada last Wednesday, signaled profound changes in the nation's demographic landscape. A rate of 1.25 is well below the replacement threshold of 2.1, ...