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The U.S. teen birth rate has been falling decades, but the decline has been less dramatic in recent years, and the drop seems to have stopped for teen girls ages 15 to 17.
This is a list of U.S. states, federal district, and territories by total fertility rate. Total Fertility Rate by U.S. state in 2021 according to the Center for Disease Control & Prevention Fertility rate by State 2008 - 2020
Replacement fertility is the total fertility rate at which women give birth to enough babies to sustain population levels, assuming that mortality rates remain constant and net migration is zero. [8] If replacement level fertility is sustained over a sufficiently long period, each generation will exactly replace itself. [ 8 ]
The recovery of the birth rate in most western countries around 1940 that produced the "baby boom", with annual growth rates in the 1.0 – 1.5% range, and which peaked during the period 1962–1968 at 2.1% per year, [2] temporarily dispelled prior concerns about population decline, and the world was once again fearful of overpopulation.
The publication noted that the U.S. fertility rate has been below 2.1 for several decades. In 2021, the rate was 1.64 per person. By 2100, it will drop to 1.45.
Falling birth rates have put major global economies on the path toward "population collapse," according to a report from McKinsey Global Institute. By 2100, some counties could see their ...
Today, population aging and falling birth rates in the U.S. are driven by a variety of factors. While economic troubles and climate anxiety are commonly cited reasons, [64] data suggest they are not the primary factors behind falling fertility in the U.S. Rather, it is due to changing attitudes; today's young people, especially women, tend to ...
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