NEW YORK -- U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide. A little under 3.6 million babies were born in 2023, according to provisional statistics released Thursday by the Centers for ...

The number of babies born in America last year was the lowest in more than four decades, according to federal figures released Wednesday that show a continuing U.S. fertility slump. U.S. women had ...

The U.S. birthrate has fallen to its lowest level in decades, according to data released on Wednesday. The rate of births in the United States fell by 4 percent in 2020, according to the Centers for ...

The number of births in the United States decreased by 4 percent from 2019 to 2020, marking the sixth consecutive year of decline and the lowest number since 1979, according to CDC data. Based on ...

And though high-risk birth frequency increased over the time period studied, the discrepancy between weekend/holiday and weekday high-risk births widened Significantly more babies were born on a ...

(Reuters) -Americans had the lowest number of babies in more than four decades last year, mirroring a slump in European birth rates, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced more people to take care of sick ...