The pontiff thanked parents for having children, criticizing Western couples for preferring to keep pets instead of raising ...

“Your nation has a high birth rate and please continue in this; you offer an example of this to other countries,” he said candidly, deviating from his prepared speech.

Among the 100 US cities with the highest numbers of live births, one-third were given an F grade in the report for their high rates of preterm birth last year.

As the Trump administration floats potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth rate, experts tell PBS News that increasing a country’s birth rate is a heavy lift — if it’s possible at all.

A decade ago, Chile had a relatively robust and stable total fertility rate of around 1.6, roughly the current rate in the U.S. Then Chile began plunging again to the current rate of 1.1.

For example, teen birth rates among Native (20.9), Hispanic (20.8), Pacific Islander (21.2), and Black (19.3) teens were more than double that of white teens (8.4) and over ten times higher than ...

In the United States, where the birth rate has fallen in the last two decades from a healthy 2.1 per woman to a sub-replacement-level 1.6, the Right has already established a near-monopoly on the ...

Pronatalists’ core argument that a higher birth rate would increase the size of the labor force overlooks some short-term consequences.

The fertility rate in England and Wales has dropped to 1.41 – a new low – despite a rise in the number of births last year ...