New DOT Secretary Sean Duffy, a former Wisconsin congressman, wants transportation funding prioritized in areas with higher ...

To understand the problem, let’s go back to 1990, when Alabama saw more than 63,000 babies born, and recorded more than ...

From the U.S. to Singapore, the global birth rate is on a decline compared to 1960 as people battle higher costs of living and childcare. They're also dealing more with medical conditions and ...

MADRID, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Spain recorded the second-lowest number of births for the month of November since records began, according to data released by the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) on ...

The health ministry usually releases its birth statistics in December, but the announcements of the estimates were canceled in 2020 and 2021 in light of the impact from the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The fertility rate, or the average number of children a woman is expected to give birth to in her lifetime, dropped to 1.34 in 2020, down 0.02 point from 2019, falling for the fifth straight year.