U.S. birth rate is below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain stable population without ...

Fertility rates (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) have dropped below replacement rates of 2.1 ...

Every part of that appears to be wrong. In reality, Thailand’s reported birth rate last year was 0.98, and preliminary 2025 data show the decline continuing. In a country the size of Thailand, the ...

Pronatalists’ core argument that a higher birth rate would increase the size of the labor force overlooks some short-term ...

Stable or slowly rising life expectancy is accompanied by very low birth rates. Take, for example, South Korea, which currently has a total fertility rate (TFR) of 0.7 births per woman.

So, if we want to get the birth rate up without trashing our economy, while also solving the problem of lonely, rootless, and aimless young men, let’s champion men who are involved fathers and ...

"In America, for example, over half of 18-to-34-year-olds are neither in a steady relationship nor living with a partner. Furthermore, most single Americans don’t feel much pressure to find a ...

But the UN projects that the U.S. birth rate will stay flat, not just this year but also in 2026 and 2030 and 2060 and 2090, never rising above 1.7 or dipping below 1.6.