The average age at which women have their first birth climbed to a record high of 27.1 years in 2020, according to the National Center for H...

The number of home births surged in 2020. The 45,646 babies born at home were 19 percent more than the 2019 number. Babies born at home acco...

The results are in. The coronavirus pandemic led to a substantial decline in births in the United States. There were fewer births in the Uni...

Non-Hispanic whites still account for the majority of births in the United States, but just barely. Fifty-one percent of the women who gave ...

The 143,000 drop in births in 2020 was the ninth largest single-year decline in more than a century of record keeping. What were the eight b...

The number of births in the United States fell to 3,605,201 in 2020, the smallest number since 1979 and 143,000 fewer than in 2019. Behind t...

If you think the Covid-19 stay-at-home orders will lead to a boom in births next year, think again. Rather than a boom, expect a "large...

The decline continues. The number of babies born in the U.S. fell to 3,745,540 in 2019, the smallest number since 1985, according to the Nat...

Over the past century, James has been the number-one most popular boy's name, according to the Social Security Administration. Between 1...

We await the April 1, 2020 census datapoint, but so far it looks like the 2010s will go down in U.S. history as the decade with the slowest ...

The final numbers are in. There were only 3,791,712 births in 2018, according to the National Center for Health Statistics report,  Births F...

Non-Hispanic Whites accounted for the 52 percent majority of women who gave birth in 2018, according to the National Center for Health Stati...

The annual number of births in the United States peaked in 2007 at 4.3 million. Since then, births have fallen in every year but one.  This ...

Only 3,788,235 babies were born in the U.S. in 2018—the fewest births since 1986, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Ex...

The ongoing baby bust is being felt in at least one grocery store aisle. Average household spending on baby food fell 64 percent between 20...

More than 40 percent of women who gave birth in 2017 had a bachelor's degree or more education, according to the National Center for Hea...

The average woman in the United States will have 1.8 children in her lifetime, according to the age-specific fertility rates of 2017. This c...

Two years ago Demo Memo presented  10 vital demographic questions and asked how many answers to these questions we would have once we had m...

Since peaking in 2007, the annual number of births in the United States has fallen 10.7 percent. This number has significance: it is equal t...

The number of non-Hispanic Whites in the United States peaked in 2015, according to the Census Bureau's 2017 population estimates. Betwe...