Birth rates
Pope Francis shakes hands with Italian premier Mario Draghi at a conference on the Demographic Crisis in Rome Friday, May 14, 2021. Pope Francis added his voice Friday to the chorus of alarm about Italy's demographic crisis, calling for government policies that provide the necessary financial stability to encourage young people to stay in Italy and have families. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
Pope raises alarm about Italy's precariously low birthrate

By Nicole Winfield May. 14, 2021 05:22 AM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 11, 2021, file photo, people overlook the skyline of Los Angeles. California's population has declined for the first time in its history. State officials announced Friday, May 7 that the nation's most populous state lost 182,083 people in 2020. California's population is now just under 39.5 million. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
California leaving: State population declines for first time

By Adam Beam May. 07, 2021 01:31 PM EDT

FILE - In this Monday, April 6, 2020 file photo, cots and cribs are arranged at the Mountain America Expo Center in Sandy, Utah, as an alternate care site or for hospital overflow amid the COVID-19 pandemic. According to a government report released on Wednesday, May 5, 2021, the U.S. birth rate fell 4% in 2020, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years. The rate dropped for moms of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly every age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
US birth rate falls to lowest point in more than a century

By Mike Stobbe May. 05, 2021 12:01 AM EDT

FILE - Rows of homes, are shown in suburban Salt Lake City, on April 13, 2019. Utah is one of two Western states known for rugged landscapes and wide-open spaces that are bucking the trend of sluggish U.S. population growth. The boom there and in Idaho are accompanied by healthy economic expansion, but also concern about strain on infrastructure and soaring housing prices. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
Booms in Idaho, Utah buck the curve of slowing US growth

By Lindsay Whitehurst And Keith Ridler May. 01, 2021 09:57 AM EDT

New Mexico expected to have fewer births, fewer students

By Cedar Attanasio Apr. 30, 2021 10:53 PM EDT
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico researchers warned on Thursday that there may be fewer people in the state in the coming decade, with a drop in births that...

FILE - In this Thursday, March 18, 2021 file photo, Bonney Ginett looks out the window of her apartment in the Queens borough of New York. Ginett, whose massage therapy business dried up during the pandemic, applied for help in July and said she was denied in October because she failed to prove loss of income. The 65-year-old New York City resident now owes more than $26,000 in back rent on her one-bedroom apartment and fears eviction. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)
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By Drew Costley Apr. 13, 2021 09:41 AM EDT

Elderly people wait in line to be vaccinated against COVID-19 at the temporary hospital at the National Stadium in Warsaw, Poland, on Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. Overload of online registration system and reduced deliveries of the Pfizer vaccines are causing delays in the national inoculation procedure that currently aims at vaccinating people aged over 70. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
Poland's population rapidly shrinking under pandemic

Jan. 26, 2021 09:19 AM EST

Matt Frinzi, 68, poses with his dog, Whitey, and his car filled with his belongings, in West Sacramento, California, on Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020. Prinzi has lived in California for 25 years. But Tuesday he officially moved to Reno, Nevada. He said his quality of life has deteriorated so much in California that he wanted to leave. California saw its slowest growth rate on record for the nation's most populous state, adding just 21,200 people during the year that ended in July, state officials said Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2020. (AP Photo/Adam Beam)
California's growth rate at record low as more people leave

By Adam Beam Dec. 16, 2020 02:01 PM EST

New home construction in Saratoga Springs on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Utah’s population swelled by an estimated 52,820 people — equivalent to adding a city the size of Herriman — during the fiscal year that ended July 1, 2020, as a years-long economic boom ended and the pandemic and its recession began. (Rick Egan/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP)
Births plummet but Utah population continues to grow

By Lee Davidson Dec. 05, 2020 08:00 AM EST

FILE - This Feb. 16, 2017 file photo shows newborn babies in the nursery of a postpartum recovery center in upstate New York. U.S. birth rates dropped for the fifth year in a row in 2019, producing the smallest number of babies in 35 years, according to numbers which were released Wednesday, May 20, 2020, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
US births fall, and virus could drive them down more

By Mike Stobbe May. 20, 2020 12:01 AM EDT