George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

People considering having children told Seven Days they think hard about financial implications — and the state of the world.

A woman at an abortion-rights protest in New York in 2023 holds a pregnancy test. The U.S. teen pregnancy rate in 2025 was 11.7 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, according to provisional data ...

The above graph shows Milwaukee births from 1990 to 2025. In 2025, Milwaukee saw around 7,400 births — its lowest number of births on record, according to preliminary vital statistics from the ...

Birth rates in the U.S. continue to fall, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. U.S. birth rates have been steadily declining for more than a decade now, ...

Children at school now might have to work into their 70s because not enough babies will be born to pay their state pensions, says a new study. There might only be two working age people to support ...

The U.S. fertility rate is at an all-time low, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers say this is part of a larger downward trend. Since 2007, the ...

Once one of the continent’s demographic high achievers, the Czech Republic has, in just a few years, experienced a dramatic fall in its fertility rate – the 5th fastest in the world. Gathering data ...

The teen birth rate continues its decades-long downward trend. Researchers say many factors are at play, including less sexual activity and more... Teen birth rates hit another historical low in 2025, ...

The teenage birth rate in the U.S. fell by 7% in 2025, continuing decades of decline, according to a report published Thursday by the National Center for Health Statistics. "A 7% decline is really ...