So how do fertility rates in Sweden compare with those in the U.S.? Data for 2021 show that they are identical (see Figure 3). That identity doesn’t mean that Sweden has bought nothing with its ...

Data collected by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that in 2023, the U.S. fertility rate dropped 3% from 2022, marking a record low. Americans are currently not having enough ...

In coming years, lower fertility rates could have profound economic consequences ... degrees and devote their 20s to career building, the mean age at which women have their first birth reached ...

With U.S. fertility rates at a record low, some people and politicians think that having more babies is the answer to the population problem. Are they right? (Getty Images) ...

Computation, even of simple indicators (fertility rates, total fertility rates, mean age at childbearing) and their standard errors, is not direct with such data, and other types of analysis ...