US fertility rate continues to drop in 2026, CDC says

The United States’s fertility rate continued its two-decade-long decline during the first quarter of 2026, according to new ...
American Enterprise Institute

The Declining Birth Rate and Its Associations

America, like many other countries, is on a path to population decline. The total fertility rate, which measures the average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, in the US for 2024 ...
The American Journal of Managed Care

Post-Dobbs Abortion Bans Raised Birth Rates and Strained Food Aid Program

Total abortion bans effective by early 2023 were associated with a 1.57% monthly birth-rate increase, approximately 1,210 additional births per month and ~14,500 additional births across 13 states in ...
KCCI Des Moines

Get the Facts: What's behind lower birth rates in the US?

THE COUNTRY THERE IS A MODERN BABY BOOM. WOMEN OVER 40 HAVING CHILDREN. SO ACCORDING TO THE CDC, IN 2023 MOMS OVER 40 GAVE BIRTH TO NEARLY 100,000 MORE BABIES THAN THEY DID IN 1990. SO 12 NEWS MALLORY ...
The Commonwealth Fund

Beyond Maternal Mortality: How Severe Morbidity Reveals Policy Gaps in Maternal Care

This brief presents updated estimates of severe maternal morbidity overall and across demographic and geographic ...