*The CDC has released new data showing a continued drop in birth rates among Black women in the U.S. According to provisional data, the Black birth rate declined by 4% in 2024 alone. That puts it in ...

China’s birth rate has fallen to its lowest level since the Communist Party took power in 1949, according to recent government data reported by the BBC and other media outlets. Official figures ...

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Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...

Experts say people are marrying later and also worry about their ability to have the money, health insurance and other resources needed to raise children in a stable environment.

In step with global and national trends, Milwaukee logged its lowest number of births on record in 2025, with just over 7,300 babies born in the city last year. As of Jan. 5, Milwaukee had recorded ...

New census estimates show the effects of falling birthrates and President Trump’s anti-immigration policies. As his term continues, immigration is expected to drop even further. By Jeff Adelson and ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

Births in Türkiye fell again in 2025, continuing a decline that has put NATO's youngest population on a course President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called a "demographic disaster." It’s a familiar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study from the American Cancer Society is shedding light on cancer mortality rates among young people — and the one type of ...

A 13-year-old boy in Mississippi died in 2022 after accidentally shooting himself with an unsecured, loaded pistol. Mississippi recorded the highest firearm-related mortality rate in the nation in ...