According to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ( CDC ), the birth rate in the country has fallen to an all-time low.
The report, which is provided by the National Center for Health Statistics,” Births: Provisional Data for 2023,” provides data on births over the past year and shows a birth rate that is in decline.
Per the information, the interim number of births for the United States was 3, 591, 328 in 2023, down two percentage from the year before. In 2022, that number stood at 3, 667, 758— a change of 76, 430 babies.
This pattern has been constant over the years, however.
” The number of births declined by an average of 2 % per year from 2015 to 2020, including a decline of 4 % from 2019 to 2020, rose 1 % from 2020 to 2021, and was essentially unchanged from 2021 to 2022″, according to the results.
The data revealed a 5 % decline in the provisional birth rate for all other races, as well as a 4 % decline for black women, a 3 % decline for white women, and a 2 % decline for Asian women.
According to the information,” Birth increased 1 % for Hispanic people and were largely unchanged for Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander people.”
Overall, the information found the basic reproduction rate dropped three cent from 2022 to 2023, going from 56 babies per thousand people aged 15 to 44 to 54.4 per thousand.
Additionally, the fertility level for women 20- 24 dropped four percentage over the last year, three percentage for those 25- 29, two percent for those 30- 34, and one percent for women 35- 39.
The release coincides with Pew Research Center’s study of U.S. Census Bureau data in 2023, which revealed that a third of 40-year-old Americans had never been married as of 2021. In assessment, in 1980, simply six percent of 40- year- olds may say the similar.
Only one in five people “actively seeking out marriage,” the foundationstone of starting a family, according to Bumble’s monthly dating report, which was released late in 2023.
Additionally, Pew Research Center also found that more than half of younger individuals 18- 29 view empty marriages as “acceptable”.
