Jonathan is a Policy Analyst in the Center for Data Analysis at The Heritage Foundation. The total fertility rate in the U.S. has been below replacement for the past half-century. Childbearing in the ...

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 total fertility rate in the United States – the estimated number of children that the average woman will have in her lifetime, based on present trends – has generally declined over the past two ...

Earth’s population is in the midst of two notable trends that will impact humanity’s future. People are living longer than ever before. At the same time, population growth is slowing and beginning to ...

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 ...

Canada’s total fertility rate (the average number of births per woman) reached a record low of 1.25 children per woman in 2024, new data shows. The data, published in a new report by Statistics Canada ...