Despite increasing numbers of women waiting to get married and start a family, Gen Z women are already feeling fertility anxiety—for most by age 23, according to a new report from HRC Fertility.

In the survey of 1,000 U.S. adults, 72 percent of Gen Z women said they experienced age-related fertility anxiety, most of them by age 23. Nearly half, 47 percent, of respondents feel pressured to have children before the age of 30.

Why It Matters

The U.S. fertility rate (the average number of children a woman has in her lifetime) is now anticipated to average 1.6 births per woman over the next three decades, according to the Congressional Budget Office's latest forecast. That is behind the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman required to maintain a stable population.

At the same time, ma

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