demographics
North AmericaU.S. births dropped last year, offsetting 2024’s increase and dashing hopes for an upward trend
By Mike Stobbe and The Associated PressFebruary 6, 2026
PoliticsAmerican births outnumbered deaths in 2025 by 519,000 people as population growth rate keeps shrinking
By Mike Schneider and The Associated PressJanuary 27, 2026
By Dudley L. Poston, Jr. and The ConversationJanuary 16, 2026
North AmericaMore Americans will die than be born in 2030, CBO predicts—leaving immigrants as the only source of population growth
By Eva RoytburgJanuary 7, 2026
North AmericaRural America is deeply misunderstood: We aren’t depopulating and we’re not the reason 2024 swung to Trump
By Tim Slack, Shannon M. Monnat and The ConversationDecember 11, 2025
EconomyChanging face of America revealed by Census Bureau: White population dips to 56.3%, numbers of non-married grow
By Mike Schneider and The Associated PressSeptember 11, 2025
North AmericaTrump says he wants a ‘baby boom,’ but the CBO sees deaths surpassing births in 2031 and a 320,000 hole in the population from deportations
By Stephen Groves and The Associated PressSeptember 10, 2025
By Erica Yokoyama and BloombergApril 15, 2025
FinanceTop economies face ‘population collapse’ as fertility rates drop, and something’s got to give, study says
By Jason MaJanuary 19, 2025
By Sara BraunJanuary 13, 2025
LifestyleRussia is speeding into a demographic crisis with a 25-year-low birth rate as the Ukraine war rages on
By Prarthana PrakashDecember 6, 2024
