Why Is the U.S. Birth Rate Declining?

The Long-Term Decline in Fertility—and What It Means for State ...

Enrollment across most states is expected to drop. Recent projections published by the National Center for Education Statistics show total U.S. ...

U.S. Fertility Rate Drops to Another Historic Low - CDC

The report shows a 2% decline from 2022, with 3,591,328 births recorded in 2023. Other findings in the new report: 2023 birth rates. declined ...

The political shockwaves of America's falling birth rates - Politico

In the United States, the number of births decreased 3 percent from 2022, according to the most recent data collected by the Centers for Disease ...

Why Is the U.S. Birth Rate Declining? - Population Reference Bureau

After 1900, average fertility declined gradually, interrupted only by the baby boom following World War II. Another drop in the total fertility ...

Why does the US fertility rate keep dropping? - The Week

Birth rates have been declining for the last few decades, and Americans are currently not having enough children to replace the country's ...

A First-Principles Look at Historically Low U.S. Fertility and its ...

Recently, the CDC released provisional data showing that, in 2023, the U.S. birth rate declined to its lowest level in history. This data ...

U.S. Births in 2023 Fell to Lowest in Decades | TIME

US births declined in 2023 to their lowest level in more than 40 years, continuing a two-decade trend of Americans having fewer children.

US fertility rate dropped to lowest in a century as births dipped in 2023

After a steep plunge in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the fertility rate has fluctuated. But the 3% drop between 2022 and 2023 ...

US births are down again, after the COVID baby bust and rebound

Before the pandemic, births had been steadily declining for many years. There were almost 600,000 fewer annual births in 2019 relative to 2007—a ...

US fertility rate dropped to record low in 2023, CDC data shows - CNN

In 2023, the US fertility rate fell another 3% from the year before, to a historic low of about 55 births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, ...

Why are global and U.S. fertility rates plummeting? - CNN

The global fertility rate has fallen from 5 births per woman in 1950 to 2.3 in 2021 - and even lower in the US, partly due to the cost of child-rearing and ...

The Mystery of the Declining U.S. Birth Rate - Econofact

The US birth rate has fallen by 20% since 2007. This decline cannot be explained by demographic, economic, or policy changes.

Declining birth rate in Developed Countries: A radical policy re-think ...

In addition there are socio-economic factors that have led to women and couples delaying having children. Lack of affordable housing, flexible and part-time ...

You can't even pay people to have more kids - Vox

In the US, the birth rate has been falling since the Great Recession, dropping almost 23 percent between 2007 and 2022. Today, the average ...

The US fertility rate is decreasing: What it means for the nation's future

Nationwide, between 2007 and 2022, fertility rates dropped by about 19%, according to CDC data. The health of the economy—as well as major ...

The Birthrate Decline and the Economy | The Heritage Foundation

According to the CDC, 2020 marked a record low fertility rate of 1.6 and was the sixth straight year with an outright decline in the number of births. A ...

U.S. Fertility Rate Drops to Another Historic Low - CDC Blogs

The general fertility rate in the United States decreased by 3% from 2022, reaching a historic low. This marks the second consecutive year of decline.

US birth rates are at record lows – even though the number of kids ...

But during the Great Recession, from 2007-2009, birth rates declined sharply – and they've kept falling. In 2007, average birth rates were right ...

The Causes and Consequences of Declining US Fertility

US births have fallen steadily since 2007 and the total fertility rate is now well below replacement level fertility—the rate at which the population ...

Fertility Rates: Declined for Younger Women, Increased for Older ...

In 2019, there were only 66.59 births to every 1,000 women in that age range — a 42.79% decline. This contributed to the overall decline. During ...