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 ...

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 ...

Shrinking birth rates In the last 50 years, the global fertility landscape has undergone a massive transformation, shifting ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, Utah had the highest fertility rates in the country. But since 2007, the total fertility rate in Utah has dropped from 2.68 births per woman to 1.80 births. This trend isn’t unique ...

Authors: Leslie Root, University of Colorado Boulder; Karen Benjamin Guzzo, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Shelley Clark, McGill University Pronatalism – the belief that low birth ...

In the face of rising national infertility and economic uncertainty, the institution of family is more important than ever. With 1 in 6 globally experiencing infertility, the current administration’s ...

While the changes in population structure that accompany low birth rates are real, the impact of these changes has been dramatically overstated. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. Since the Great Recession, the total fertility rate in the United States has fallen far below the level of ...