The fertility rate, approximately 1.6 births per woman, is well below the 2.1 births needed to maintain the country’s population through births alone.

Women in the United States are having fewer children with the country’s birth rate falling to an almost record low last year, preliminary data show.   Roughly 3.6 million babies were born in the

Births in the United States held near record low numbers in 2024, up just 1%, a statistic that could fuel President Donald Trump’s recent drive to pursue policies to encourage childrearing. Only 3.62 million babies were born in the U.