U.S. Fertility Rate Declines to 1.6 Births per Woman in 2025

U.S. 6 births per woman of reproductive age in 2025. That figure represented a 1 percent decline from 2024 and a 23 percent drop since 2007.

1 births per woman needed to keep the population stable. The share of American adults under 50 who do not want children increased from 37 percent in 2018 to 47 percent in 2023, according to a 2024 poll. A 2023 survey found that 47 percent of Americans under 50 don’t want to have kids.

Only 48 percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 consider raising a family a particularly important life goal. U.S. births mirrors trends in other wealthy nations. 8 children per woman.

1 children per woman. According to the AI platform Claude, the last South Korean will die some time after the year 2400. The projection underscores the long-term trajectory of sustained sub-replacement fertility even as the country transformed from one of the poorest on earth to one of the wealthiest.

K. U.S. shows that those without children are happier, more content with their lives, and experience less psychological stress than parents with children living at home.

The findings have fueled debate over personal choices that, in aggregate, carry civilizational weight. Martin Gurri has three children and multiple grandsons. He attended the births of his children as one of the first generation of fathers expected to be present.

Gurri said the decision to have children "seemed to us self-evident and preceded any attempt to theorize or justify. " Gurri reflected on the research suggesting childless adults report higher happiness. "Parenting is massively time-consuming but — so long as everyone’s healthy — not particularly stressful," he wrote.

He described his children as "good-hearted, smart, among my favorite people to be with" and pointed to the unique bond with grandchildren. "Between grandparents and grandkids, there exists as perfect a relationship as anything our flawed humanity allows," Gurri stated.