The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to its lowest level ever recorded, signaling a profound demographic shift ...

Birth rates are generally declining for women in most age groups — and that doesn’t seem likely to change in the near future, ...

NEW DELHI (IANS) – India’s population is projected to reach 1.46 billion in 2025, making it the world’s most populous nation, according to the United Nations Population Fund’s State of ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the disease was declared eliminated a quarter-century ago, just as a key Senate ...

From sky-high living costs to shifting cultural priorities, certain countries are seeing their fertility rates dip well below the population replacement level of 2.1 children per woman.

This year will bring "another significant decline of the birth rate" for the majority of countries, new analysis shows.

Global fertility rates have been falling for decades and are reaching historically low levels. While the human population now exceeds 8 billion and may top 10 billion by 2050, the momentum of growth ...

Belarus, a onetime redemption story, recorded a fertility rate of just 1.1 last year, lower than the lowest lows the country experienced in the 1990s. Deaths outnumbered births by nearly two to one.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is hiring Lyn Redwood, a nurse and the former head of a group critics have denounced as anti-vaccine, to work in its vaccine safety office, multiple ...

The CDC noted that hospitalization rates for Covid-19 in babies and toddlers were roughly the same as for older adults last year.

Fertility decline is a devilish problem. What if the only solution is to treat parenting as a public service worth paying for?