U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low in 2025

0:00It's April 9th, from red carpets to breaking stories. This is entertainment and celebrity news, powered by AI. The U.S. fertility rate dropped to a record low in 2025, continuing a nearly 20-year slide as fewer women had kids and many put off. Starting families. Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows births fell 1% to about 3.6 million babies. The general fertility rate, that's births per 1,000 women, age 15 to 44, dipped 1% to 53.1. This comes after a 23% plunge in that rate since 2007, marking a steady downward trend for almost two decades. Younger women are driving most of the drop, with declines among those under 30 far outpacing small upticks for women in their 30s and 40s. Teen rates hit new lows too. About 7% for ages 18 to 19, and 11% for 15 to 17-year-olds, highlighting big.

1:01Shifts in when and how people build families. These latest figures come from 99.95% of all birth records processed by the National Center for Health Statistics as of February 3rd, 2026. As patterns like these keep evolving, it'll be key to watch how economic pressures, delayed milestones, and policy changes play into what families look like down the line.