The U.S. Census Bureau released new population projections this month forecasting that the American fertility rate (the ...

Philippine Statistics Authority data shows live births in the Philippines fell 22.1 percent over the past decade, with nearly ...

Kobi Ajayi founded and remains affiliated with EDEN Foundation, Nigeria, a local non-profit organization with a mission to improve preterm infant outcomes. Seven years ago, at 30 weeks into a ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — A change happening in society could start impacting West Michigan school districts and the workforce. Around the world, across the country and in local counties, birth rates are ...

The U.S. again received a “D+” grade in March of Dimes’ annual report card on maternal and infant health. This marks the fourth consecutive year the U.S. has received a “D+”, pointing to stalled ...

Charles A. "Chuck" Donovan is president of the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research and education arm of the Susan B. Anthony List. A few decades back, a Wall Street Journal editor named James ...

Postville's meatpacking plants have attracted many immigrants and helped to sustain its population. During a busy lunch hour at Postville’s Junior Senior High School, Brendan Knudtson, the ...

Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...

GRAND FORKS – North Dakota birth rates have declined 35% since 2016, a trend some say is caused by economic uncertainty, a shift in social norms and a post-oil boom lull. Unless residents start having ...

California’s birth rate has hit a record low, a historic “baby bust” dipping below the birth rate of 1906, when San Francisco was recovering from the great earthquake that destroyed most of the city.