The COVID-19 pandemic has killed more than 700,000 people in the United States, and it may have also reduced the number of live U.S. births by more than 100,000. Analysts at the National Center for ...

About 142,000 fewer babies were born in the U.S. in 2020 than in 2019, according to provisional figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released May 5. But unlike most health news ...

Number of live births and general fertility rates: United States, final 1990–2019 and provisional 2020. (National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality, via ...

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May 5 (UPI) --Birth and fertility rates in the United States declined again last year, data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed Wednesday -- with births down 4% to the lowest ...

Birth and fertility rates in the United States dropped in 2020 for the sixth straight year, plummeting to the lowest levels since 1979 and amounting for the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 ...

Early in the pandemic, there were jokes about quarantines prompting a baby boom, but roughly nine months since COVID-19 triggered a national emergency in the U.S., experts are reporting a baby bust.

2020 was a grueling year, but at least the number of Americans born into it was lower than it had been in more than four decades. A total of 3,604,201 babies were born last year in the United States, ...

A closely divided Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday in a case testing Trump administration rules that cut back on access to birth control under the Affordable Care Act. The difficulty of the ...