Mexico is not alone: countries around the world are witnessing falling fertility rates. The Institute for Health Metrics and ...

Steep population declines in most countries are expected to have negative effects over the next several generations, but ...

“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.

Birth rates in middle-income countries are also plummeting, putting their economic development at risk. Practically the only countries set to continue growing are desperately poor.

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 ...

The Sample Registration System (SRS) shows that India’s birth rate, death rate, and infant mortality rate (IMR) have all ...

President Donald Trump has expressed some interest in the idea of giving new parents a $5,000 “baby bonus,” and a new CDC report shows the US fertility rate is hovering near a record low as ...

India has witnessed a remarkable transformation in its demographic indicators over the last five decades, with birth and ...

Record low infant mortality rate of 25 in India, showing significant decline in IMR, birth rate, and death rate.