A new analysis suggests smartphones and social media are driving a global fall in birth rates by reducing in-person ...

Just when you think smartphone panic can't get any more dumb, it always does. Case in point: People are insisting that phones ...

The number of births increased in the United States for the first time in seven years, according to a new federal report. Provisional data published Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

*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 ...

Global fertility rates falling below replacement in most countriesSmartphone/social media linked to decline in coupling and ...

The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Birth rates among mothers in their 20s have declined, a new report from ...

Discover the stark differences in birth rates among Indiana counties, the impact of the aging population, and the initiatives to address declining fertility rates.