This is something we've talked about here quite a bit, but peeps ain't having no babies.
Americans aren't having babies
Americans aren't having babies
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The total fertility rate fell to 1.62 births per woman in 2023, a 2% decline from a year earlier, federal data released Thursday showed. It is the lowest rate recorded since the government began tracking it in the 1930s.
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A confluence of factors are at play. American women are having fewer children, later in life. Women are establishing fulfilling careers and have more access to contraception.
At the same time, young people are also more uncertain about their futures and spending more of their income on homeownership, student debt and child care.
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"People are making rather reasoned decisions about whether or not to have a child at all," said Karen Benjamin Guzzo, director of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "More often than not, I think what they're deciding is 'Yes, I'd like to have children, but not yet.'"
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An influx of people immigrating to the U.S. could offset the impact of lower birthrates on the U.S. population's size, said Hamilton, the report author. Immigration has risen in recent years, easing labor shortages and expanding the population of big metropolitan areas.
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Women in their mid-to-late 30s are having children at similar rates to those in their early to mid-20s. Birthrates for women 35-39 fell to 54.7 births per 1,000 womencloser to the rates for women 20-24, which dropped 4% to 55.4 births per 1,000 women in 2023.