The American birth rate has dropped to a record low that hasn’t been seen in the last 35 years. The culprit? Many Americans are worried that they can’t afford to have children, so they aren’t trying to at all, or they’re delaying parenthood to a time in the future when it might make more sense for them.
A report documenting the surprising drop was published by the CDC in March 2020, but is just now beginning to gain serious traction. Brady E. Hamilton, the statistician demographer who wrote the report, explained that the results offer a few bits of insight. “These statistics tell you things, like how many children you can expect to have as they enter schools and (as adults) into the workforce. There are a couple of caveats. The statistics are the rates for a period in time, 2019.”
In other words, this report about the declining birth rate in the United States is based on births that were recorded in the entire country last year.
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