The U.S. teen birth rate continued a decadeslong downward trend in 2022, dropping by 2% from 2021, according to the most recent final report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The national birth rate among females 15 to 19 years old fell to 13.6 births per 1,000 in 20...
"Since the most recent high in 2007, the number of births has declined 17%, and the general fertility rate has declined 21%," according to the report. The report did not provide reasons for the decrease in births, but fertility has trended downward on and off since the...
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and economic uncertainty in the past year, the U.S. is on a continued downward trend in fertility rates, according to Pew. In May, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report that revealed the U.S. birth rate fell 4% last ...
The trend may continue: A preliminary count of U.S. births through the first six months of this year suggests a continuing drop, CDC officials said. A decline in immigration to the United States is another factor experts cite for the lower birth rate. Other findings in the new report inclu...
But return-to-office mandates in the past two years have reversed that trend and caused commute times to bump up slightly last year, growing on average to 26.8 minutes from 26.4 minutes. The survey also showed that the median cost of renting, plus utilities and related expenses, grew ...
"It is just an absolutely remarkable trend," Hamilton said. "We are reaching record lows, and it's really quite amazing." The sharp drop in the teen birth rate has been attributed to TV shows and public ad campaigns that highlight the downsides of being a young mother, Hamilton said. ...
The C-section rate had been rising steadily since 1996, until it dropped slightly in 2010. "It does suggest the upward trend may be halted," said Joyce Martin, a CDC epidemiologist who co-authored the new report. But CDC officials want a few more years of data before declaring victory, ...
Despite the recent dip, foreign-born mothers still give birth to a disproportionate share of the nation's newborns, a trend that has persisted over the past two decades. The birth rate for immigrant women in 2010 was 87.8 per 1,000 births, compared with 58.9 per 1,000 births for American...
What accounted for the slightly higher drop last year will presumably be debated for a while but the overall trend is likely more interesting. But it’s the natural flip side of the coin of thedelayed maturityissue we discussed recently. Americans have been steadily spending more time in school...
AP IMPACT: More US babies born, fertility rate up, defying low-birth trend in EuropeMIKE STOBBE