Tara Haelle

Tara Haelle is a freelance science and multimedia journalist who specializes in reporting on vaccines, pediatric and maternal health, parenting, public health, mental health, medical research, and the social sciences. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, NPR, Scientific American, Medscape, Self, the Washington Post, Politico, Everyday Health, Slate, Frontline Medical Communications and elsewhere. 

A nurse takes care of a newborn baby after the birth at a hospital in Kishanganj district, Bihar, India, March 20, 2023. India's fertility rate, fell to 2.0 in 2019-2021, but state health officials estimate Kishanganj's fertility rate at 4.8 or 4.9, creating population growth that the state is trying to curb with the distribution of condoms and birth control pills. REUTERS/Anushree Fadnavis
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Global Fertility Rate Continues To Fall: How Governments Could Prepare

by Tara Haelle

The global fertility rate will decline from now through 2100, according to new projections in The Lancet