The American population is becoming older, with the proportion of baby boomers increasing while birth rates are declining, according to the newly released Vintage 2024 Population Estimates by the U.S.
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 ...
Families in the U.S. and around the world are having fewer children as people make profoundly different decisions about their lives. NPR's series Population Shift: How Smaller Families Are Changing ...
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 ...
The U.S. population isn't growing the way it used to. Congressional forecasters have lowered their projection of population growth over the next decade by 7 million people, in response to the Trump ...
Falling birth rates have policymakers around the world worried. How well do you know the numbers driving the discussion? Take our quiz. July 21, 2025 at 8:00 a.m. EDTJust now Keith Moore is head of ...