The global birth rate is less than half what it was in the 1960s. See where birth rates are highest and lowest.

New research links smartphone adoption to nearly half of America's fertility decline through reduced relationship formation.

Are smartphones causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth ...

Between 210,000 to 405,000 individuals voluntarily migrated from the United States in 2025, and the country experienced a 54% decline in net international migration, from 2.7 million to ...

Since the 1980s, fertility rates in the United States among women over 30, particularly those 35 and older, have generally ...

The iPhone was introduced in 2007, the same year the U.S. birth rate started to slide. The issues could be linked, a new analysis finds.

A working paper suggests that the iPhone could be contributing to declining birth rates in the U.S. This idea has sparked ...

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A newly published study says the advent of the iPhone explains a 33-52% decline in U.S. birth rates for women 15-44 between ...