Declining fertility rate in the United States
Subject in Social Sciences
Declining fertility rate in the United States has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including The Daily. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Sarah MervoshEducation reporter at The New York Times
Mervosh attributes part of the decline to the U.S. fertility rate, which peaked in 2007, with those children graduating in 2025.
“In the U.S. broadly, the fertility rate peaked in 2007, and it's pretty much been declining since then”
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Public Schools Have a New Crisis: Not Enough StudentsThe Daily · Nov 11, 2026 · 48 min
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