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US birth rates are falling—but it's not worrying Americans

President Donald Trump and Congress have offered tax credits and proposed legislation to tackle declining birth rates in the U.S., but according to polling, Americans don't consider the issue to be a ...
RealClearScience

Falling U.S. Birth Rates Won't Lead to Population Collapse

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 ...
New York Post

US birth rates plummet to all-time low as housing prices continue to rise

The U.S. birth rate plunged to an all-time low in 2024 after being on a downward trajectory for roughly 20 years, with soaring housing costs widely cited as a major contributing factor. Earlier this ...
CNN

Red states could benefit as Trump’s transportation secretary prioritizes funds based on birth and marriage rates

In a Fox News segment last year on America’s declining birth rate, former congressman Sean Duffy joked about how he would “lose count” of his nine kids, and urged viewers to follow his lead in having ...
Phys.org

Fears that falling birth rates in the US could lead to population collapse are based on faulty assumptions

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 ...
New Scientist

The real reasons birth rates are declining worldwide

The fall is astonishing. At its height, the global fertility rate hit 5.3 births per woman in 1963, but it has been in near-constant decline ever since. Sixty years on, it is now only around 2.2. In ...