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The other aberration from this otherwise steady decline in teen birth rates is the 6% decrease in birth rates for 15- to 19-year-olds between 2008 and 2009. [104] Despite these years of decrease, U.S. teen birth rates are still higher than in other developed nations. [104] Racial differences prevail with teen birth and pregnancy rates as well.
During the baby boom years, between 1946 and 1964, the birth rate doubled for third children and tripled for fourth children. [29] The total fertility rate of the United States jumped from 2.49 in 1945 to 2.94 in 1946, a rise of 0.45 children therefore beginning the baby boom.
Among women aged 25-34 years, who accounted for more than 2 million births in 2023, the birth rate fell about 2.5%, while births among women aged 20-24 years fell by 4% to a record low rate. U.S ...
The birth rate in major U.S. cities is lower than the national average. Across all locations, the average rate of women aged 15 to 50 having a child in 2022 is 5.2%, compared to 5.0% in major cities.
US birth rates among teenagers aged 15 to 19, 1991 to 2023. According to Child Trends research institute, prevalence of teen birth in the United States has plummeted between the early 1990s and 2020s. [4] [5] Teenage birth rates, as opposed to just pregnancies, peaked in 1991, when there were 61.8 births per 1,000 teens. [13]
Americans had the lowest number of babies in more than four decades last year, mirroring a slump in European birth rates, as the COVID-19 pandemic forced more people to take care of sick family ...
This article includes a list of U.S. states sorted by birth and death rate, expressed per 1,000 inhabitants, for 2021, using the most recent data available from the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics.
Simply put, researchers believe fewer people want to have kids since the birth rate is falling across all categories: age, race, education level, marital status and so on.