The fertility rate, approximately 1.6 births per woman, is well below the 2.1 births needed to maintain the country’s ...

Women in the United States are having fewer children, with the country’s birth rate falling to an almost record low last year ...

Despite a 1 percent increase in 2024, U.S. birthrates remained in a historic slump, a trend that worries demographers and ...

US Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who has nine children, recently prioritized infrastructure funding for communities that have higher birth rates. The move sparked concern in some states ...

About 70% of the states Trump won were above the national birth rate average in 2023, compared to just 15% of the states Harris won, according to the most recent data from the National Center for ...

Approximately 1% of American women give birth at home and face substantial obstacles when they make this choice. This study describes the reasons that women in the United States choose home birth.

The principal determinant of low birth weight in the United States is preterm delivery, a phenomenon of largely unknown etiology. Preterm delivery is more common in the United States than in many ...