U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick
Source: CBS News
April 25, 2024 / 12:01 AM EDT
The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Last year's slowdown marks an official end to the uptick in new babies that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. At least 3,591,328 babies were born in the U.S. in 2023, down 2% from the 3,667,758 born in 2022.
This is on par with annual declines seen before the pandemic, the report said, which averaged around 2% fewer babies each year.
There were already signs in the year before that a pandemic surge in births was coming to an end. There were slightly fewer babies born in 2022 compared to 2021, though agency officials said at the time that this drop was not large enough to be considered a statistically significant decline.
"Last year, the difference was very small. This year, it's something on the order of 74,000 or thereabouts. So it's fairly large," the CDC's Brady Hamilton, one of the report's authors, told CBS News.
Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-birth-rate-drops-record-low-2023-after-pandemic-uptick/
Link to CDC/National Center for Health Statistics REPORT (PDF) - https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr035.pdf
Marthe48
(17,032 posts)Can't afford, fear if something goes wrong, bringing a new life into this old world. Maybe the collective unconscious revolting against oppression?
Sky Jewels
(7,143 posts)My Gen Z kids probably won't have kids because they don't think it's fair to bring babies into a melting-down, burning-up planet. Many of their peers have concluded the same.
Marthe48
(17,032 posts)Because of the climate, war, things like that. Gen X.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)It's not like he could afford to raise any kids anyway. Any job he could get pays shit.
This poor generation has really been giving a raw deal. Predatory capitalism is making their lives very, very difficult in the United States.
Stargazer99
(2,599 posts)Never fear the rich and inherited rich are running this country and they will figure it out
Sky Jewels
(7,143 posts)I hope human birthrates plummet worldwide. The fewer of us destructive, violent, nature-destroying, parasitic, invasive hairless primates there are, the better.
speak easy
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Yeah. Why not sterilise the population of "destructive, violent, nature-destroying, parasites?" After all, that's what WE do to pests. We could start with the Untermensch.
Aristus
(66,467 posts)n/t
Sky Jewels
(7,143 posts)People voluntarily not having babies is vastly different than forced sterilization. But you knew that.
Jose Garcia
(2,605 posts)PSPS
(13,615 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)and primary care providers if they would just allow more to emigrate from overseas. Many countries teach English as their second language of choice, so there isn't even a language barrier.
Traurigkeit
(250 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,219 posts)Most are in cities, which are blue.
Magoo48
(4,720 posts)As the climate catastrophe grows acutely critical, abrupt reversals in population growth will become ever more common.
pfitz59
(10,391 posts)Babies are being born. You see them in the arms of their mothers at the border and in shelters. At the food bank and dollar stores. Riding transit or walking miles in the desert heat. In fundie churches learning the gospel of hate.
CousinIT
(9,259 posts)....BAD, BAD idea unless they're in a blue state. IMO they should refuse sex & marriage until talibangelicals learn respect.
Elessar Zappa
(14,077 posts)but could cause a crisis also. I think Japan has so many older people with so few young people that there isnt the tax base or labor force to provide for them all. So far things havent hit the fan but in a decade, who can say what will happen?
LiberalFighter
(51,097 posts)pstokely
(10,530 posts)or will just inseminate women with some anonymous sperm donor?