January 10, 2023

U.S. Birth Rates Continue to Fall

US News -   "A lower percentage of women aged 15 to 44 in 2015–2019 had ever had a biological child (52.1%) compared with women aged 15 to 44 in 2011–2015 (54.9%)," concluded a report issued Jan. 10 by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics... Overall, birth rates have plummeted for Americans over the past five decades: "Between 1976 and 2018, the mean number of children ever born per woman declined, from three children to two," according to the report's authors, Gladys Martinez and Kimberly Daniels.

2 comments:

Greg Gerritt said...

May it continue to go down so that we can heal the Earth and make America livable again

Anonymous said...

Having an inverted pyramid for a demographic is the road to ruin. At that point the only question is who will be left to turn off the lights.