ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s 2019 population has dipped to its lowest level since 2012 because of a falling birth rate and a decrease in the number of new arrivals to the state, officials...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is known for its high birth rate, but an ongoing lag has researchers wondering if the state is in a new era of lower fertility.

LITTLE ROCK Ark. (AP) — According to health officials, people in Arkansas are having fewer babies.

KATV reports the Arkansas Department of Health says the state last year had its lowest...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway's statistical agency says it has recorded the lowest number of newborns since it started counting in the 19th century, with the country's family minister...

CHICAGO (AP) — The teen birth rate has decreased in Illinois and Chicago, with the city recording a new historic low.

Mayor Rahm Emanuel said Tuesday there were 24.6 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 in Chicago in 2016. That's the most recent year for which data are available. That's a 10.5 percent decrease from 2015.

Rates have been falling across the U .S. and statewide. Illinois recorded 18.7 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 19 in 2016, down from a rate of 22.8 in 2014.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama's total population gain last year might fill up half of Cramton Bowl, Montgomery's municipal football stadium. That could spell trouble for the state's political prospects.

The U.S. Census Bureau this week estimated that Alabama grew by about 12,751 people during the year ending July 1, a minimal 0.2 percent increase that was slower than other states.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — An education official says enrollment in West Virginia's public schools dropped significantly this year due to a change in prekindergarten enrollment and a declining birth rate.

West Virginia schools Superintendent Steve Paine announced Thursday there were 4,858 fewer students enrolled this year in prekindergarten through 12th grades.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state is promoting a campaign to reduce the number of stillborn deaths in Kansas.

The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Wednesday it is partnering with Count the Kicks, a stillbirth prevention public health campaign.

Kansas officials say the state records an average of 232 stillborn deaths each year. The campaign seeks to save 60 babies every year by decreasing Kansas' stillbirth rate by 26 percent. The effort achieved that reduction in Iowa.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's economy got off to one of the slowest starts in the nation this year.

The Portland Press Herald reports the Bureau of Economic Analysis released a report this week that found that Maine's economy grew at annual expansion rate of just 0.6 percent in the first quarter of 2018. This follows a jump in growth in the third quarter of 2017.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Births by Wisconsin teenagers are dropping, following a national trend.

The latest figures from state health officials show the birth rate to mothers ages 15-19 has dropped dramatically.

The rate of teen births in Wisconsin was 15 per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19 in 2016, according to an annual report by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. The rate was nearly 31 per 1,000 Wisconsin teens in 2008.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Pregnancies and birth rates dipped to historic lows among Minnesota teens, while sexually transmitted diseases continue climbing, according to a report by the University of Minnesota.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma's teen birth rate remained the country's second-highest in 2016 for the third year in a row but it has also been declining, according to newly released data.

The Oklahoma Department of Health and the National Center for Health Statistics say the state's rate of about 33 births per 1,000 females ages 15-19 was second only to Arkansas.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's population declined for the first time since the late 1980s, according to recent figures from Alaska's Department of Labor and Workforce Development.

The department published the statistics for 2017 in the March edition of Alaska Economic Trends.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is the third-fastest growing state in the country thanks to a high birth rate, U.S. census data found.

Utah follows only Idaho and Nevada in population growth since last year, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Wednesday.

The state's population grew by more than 57,000 people between July 2016 and July 2017, pushing Utah's total population to 3.1 million.

BEND, Ore. (AP) — The last time Oregon saw more people leaving than moving into the state was the 1980s, during a decline in the timber industry.

"People actually packed up and left," said Josh Lehner, economist with the Oregon Office of Economic Analysis. In 1982 and 1983, so many people left, the population declined. People continued to move away through 1986, but the birth rate made up for those losses.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government is encouraging citizens to go forth and multiply like rabbits.

The health ministry of Poland, which has one of the lowest birth rates in Europe, has put out a short video praising rabbits for producing many offspring.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina's teen birth rate has dropped by 67 percent over the last 25 years.

The state Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy reports the rate fell by 9 percent from 2015 to 2016, the latest data available.

Campaign CEO Beth De Santis says the 67 percent drop since 1991 is a "point of pride for our state."

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's birth rate has declined in the past decade, and experts say much of the decrease is driven by a significant drop in teen births.

The state had almost 66,500 births last year, down from more than 72,700 births in 2007, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah women are choosing home birth at a rate double the national average, and mothers who do so tend to be older and have more education than women who decide to give birth in hospitals, according to a state health department report released this month.

Planned home births made up 2.12 percent of all births in Utah in 2013, according to the report from the Utah Department of Health. The U.S. national rate is less than 1 percent.

PHOENIX (AP) — A new report shows that birth rates in Arizona and across the U.S. are at historic lows.

The National Center for Health Statistics released provisional data from 2016 on Friday that puts the national fertility rate for women between 15- and 44-years-old at 62 births per 1,000 women.

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago's Department of Public Health says births by teenagers in the city are at historic lows.

An agency statement Sunday says there have been eight consecutive years of declines.

The most recently available data is from 2014, when there were 32 births per 1,000 females between 15 and 19 — a more than a 62 percent drop from a 85.2 rate in 1999.

NEW YORK (AP) — In a story May 17 about U.S. births and deaths, The Associated Press erroneously reported last year's birth rates. The rates were calculated per 1,000 women, not 100,000. The rate per 1,000: 103 for women in their early 30s, and 102 for late 20s. The rate for all women of child-bearing age was 62.

A corrected version of the story is below:

Women in 30s now having more babies than younger moms in US

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — More than four-fifths of school districts offer no sex education or only teach abstinence in Texas, which has one of the country's highest teen birth rates, according to a study released Tuesday.

The study commissioned by Texas Freedom Network, a left-leaning education watchdog group, found that 25 percent of roughly 1,000 school districts statewide didn't offer any sex education during the 2015-2016 school year and about 58 percent only taught students to abstain from sex.

PROVO, Utah (AP) — The county that boasts the highest birth rate in the nation's fastest-growing state has produced fewer babies in recent years, following U.S. trends amid still-lingering economic woes.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is the fastest-growing state in the country, leading a cluster of Western states with populations on the upswing despite sluggish national growth, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Census Bureau Tuesday.

The state that's long had the country's highest birth rate grew just over 2 percent from July 2015 to July 2016, followed closely by Nevada, Idaho and Florida. Washington, Oregon and Colorado also took top percentage-growth spots.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California's population has grown to 39.4 million.

The state Department of Finance said Monday that the state added 295,000 people between July 1, 2015, and July 1, 2016.

The department also says the birth rate declined to 12.42 births per 1,000 population from 13.69 births per 1,000 in the 2010 census.

PORTSMOUTH, Ohio (AP) — A recent report from the Children's Defense Fund has found that Scioto County in south-central Ohio has the highest birth rate of drug-addicted babies in the state.