U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday.
A new CDC report published Tuesday found that the number of births in the U.S. in 2021 increased, the first annual rise recorded in seven years.
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The report also looked at other provisional data and found that overall births did fall to 3,661,220 in 2022 from 3,664,292 in 2021, but it was described by the authors as a nonsignificant decline. Additionally, the general fertility rate among women aged 15 to 44 declined, but by less...
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(NEW YORK) — The number of births in the United States increased in 2021 for the first time in seven years, reversing trends that continued during the pandemic, according to new federal data. A report published early Tuesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center...
Preterm birth remains a leading cause of infant mortality in the United States. In 2023, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported approximately 5.6 deaths per 1,000 live births. Meanwhile, the preterm birth rate remained high at 10.4%, affecting over 370,000 babies ...
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After a notableincreasein infant mortality in 2022, rates stayed flat in 2023, the new CDC data shows. But rates of congenital malformations and low birth weights — the two leading causes of infant death in the US — both ticked up. Other research has found thatbirths have increasedin stat...