The total fertility rate (TFR) is the most widely used measurement by healthcare organizations and researchers to better understand and predict population trends. It measures the total number of live ...

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 ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump, a father of five who dubbed himself the “fertilization president” during Women’s History Month, has reportedly begun to float potential incentives to bring up the U.S. birth ...

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 ...

Humanity has entered a new era of rapid population decline. Globally, the total fertility rate is likely already below replacement—that is, below the level needed to sustain the population in the long ...

Leslie Root receives funding from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) for work on fertility rates. Karen Benjamin Guzzo has received funding from the ...