(NewsNation) — Women are having babies less often as the birth rate in the United States continues to decline ... The general fertility rate dropped 3% last year, reaching a record low of ...

As maternal mortality rates continue to rise in the US, so do rates of cesarean deliveries, which Hamilton notes are “major abdominal surgeries.” Nearly a third of all births (32.4%) were C ...

The US fertility rate has been trending down for decades, with particularly steep dips after the Great Recession of 2008. An uptick in 2021 spurred theories about a Covid-19 “baby bump,” but ...

Newsweek spoke to several experts to find out if the Supporting Healthy Moms and Babies Act could improve falling birth rates.

After years of ominous headlines about the world's shrinking birth rates, there's a bright spot. The US birth rate increased slightly in 2024, according to preliminary data from the CDC.

Births in the United States dropped again between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The national birth rate has been steadily ...

The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it's been in more than a ...

(CNN) — Women in the United States are having babies less often, and the fertility rate reached a record low in 2023, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The US birth rate grew by 1% in 2024, according to a new CDC report. Moms in their early 40s and late 30s experienced the biggest increases in births. Meanwhile, births declined the most among ...

(CNN) — The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more ...