Birth Rates
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| U.S. Fertility Rate Hits Record Low and Births Continue to Diminish National Center for Health Statistics data for 2018 show the lowest general fertility rate on record and just 3,788,000 births—the fewest in 32 years. There were 528,000 fewer births (12 percent) in 2018 than in 2007, just before the Great Recession began to… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Fertility |
| Data Snapshot: Hispanic Population of Child-Bearing Age Grows, but Births Diminish The U.S. population grew by just 0.62 percent last year, the smallest rate of increase in eighty years. Future growth now depends on minority population gains, because the white population is no longer growing.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Hispanics |
| Data Snapshot: U.S. Population Growth Continues to Slow Due to Fewer Births and More Deaths The U.S. population grew by just 2,020,000 or 0.62 percent between July 2017 and July 2018 according to recent Census Bureau estimates. This is the lowest population growth rate since 1937.
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Demography | Birth Rates, Demography |
| Data Snapshot: Ten Years After the Great Recession Began, U.S. Birth Rate Is at Record Low Recent National Center for Health Statistics data show a record low birth rate in the United States, and no evidence of any upturn in this birth rate. Though other social and economic factors may also be influencing U.S. birth rates, the impact of the Great Recession… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography |
| Domestic Migration and Fewer Births Reshaping America New Census Bureau data released on March 22, 2018, demonstrate the continuing influence of domestic migration on U.S. demographic trends. Migration patterns are reverting to those common before the recession. Suburban counties of large metropolitan areas, smaller… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Migration |
| Data Snapshot: 2.1 Million More Childless U.S. Women Than Anticipated In 2016, there were 2.1 million more childless women of prime child-bearing age than anticipated. The 19.5 million women age 20–39 in 2016 who had never given birth was 12 percent more than demographers would have expected given child-bearing patterns just before the… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography |
| Data Snapshot: New Data Show U.S. Birth Rate Hits Record Low New data from the National Center for Health Statistics show a record low birth rate in the United States. In 2016, I estimate there were 600,000 fewer births in the United States than would have been expected had pre-recessionary birth rates continued. And, there is… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography |
| U.S. Births Remain Low as the Great Recession Wanes The Great Recession sent an economic shock through American society that reached far beyond the stock and housing markets. More than five years after economists announced the end of the recession, fertility levels have still not recovered. As a result, more than 3.4… |
Demography | Birth Rates |
| Deaths Exceed Births in Most of Europe, But Not in the United States With the increased attention to Europe’s demographic future stimulated by the on-going immigration crisis, we present important new findings about the diminishing number of births compared to deaths in Europe and the United States from our recent article in… |
Demography | Birth Rates, Demography, Mortality |
| Behind at the Starting Line Hispanics are driving U.S. population growth. Representing just 16 percent of the U.S. population in 2010, Hispanics accounted for the majority of U.S. population growth over the past decade. The current emphasis on immigration in public discourse and policy reflects… |
Vulnerable Families Research Program | Birth Rates, Children, Demography, Hispanics |
