Falling in birth rate is associated with economic instability, postponing motherhood and lack of social support for parents.
In the United States, the birth rate of 2024 fell to a historical minimum – 1.6 children per woman. CBS reported it.
It was noted that earlier the birth rate in the United States was approximately 2.1 children per woman. But for almost two decades in the Americas, this indicator has been declining.
According to the World Bank, new statistics match the birth rate in Western Europe.
US president administration Donald Trump has taken steps to increase birth rate. In February, an executive executive was issued, aimed at expanding access to extractoric fertilization and its reduction, and also supported the idea of “bonuses for the birth of children”, which could stimulate more than pairs of children.
According to Leslie Ruth, a researcher from the University of Colorado in the bowlder, who specializes in maturity and demographic policy, there are no reasons for concern.
“We consider it part of the ongoing birth rate delay process. We know that the US population is still growing, and we still have a natural increase – the birth rate exceeds the amount of death,” he said.
As you know, in the early 1960s, the overall birth rate in the United States was about 3.5, but in 1976 he fell sharply to 1.7 after the end of the baby’s paper. It gradually grew to 2.1 in 2007, before it fell again, except for the growth in 2014.
According to the National Center for Statistics of Health Center of Control and Prevention of Diseases, “in 2023 this indicator was 1.621, but in 2024 gradually dropped to 1.599”.
As the Director of the Carolina population at the University of North Carolina Karen Gutzzo, “the birth rate as a whole is reduced to women in most age groups, and it is not likely to change in the near future.”
“People will get married later, and also remember about their ability to have money, medical insurance and other resources needed for raising children in a stable environment. Alarm is not the best time for children’s birth, and that is why birth rate in most age groups does not improve,” she said.
In the question of proposals to stimulate the birth rate indicated by the Trump administration, Gutzzo replied that they could not resolve more scale needs, such as child care and affordable child care.
A new CDC report based on a more complete review of birth certificates than previous data published earlier this year also showed an increase in the number of births of 1% – about 33,000 more – last year compared to last year.
In 2024, a little over 3.6 million children were born in the United States. Earlier it seems that the number of births has increased, especially in women aged 20 to 30 years. But the new, specified data has shown another picture: in this age group, the birth rate has actually decreased, and in women from 30 years – remained unchanged.
In centers for control and prevention of diseases, they explain this through changes in demographic calculations. U.S. population assessments are updated, and it influences the indicators.
According to Leslie Ruth, due to the increase in the number of women of childbirth, including due to immigration, the total number of births may look large, even if the individual birth rate has not changed.
Remember, according to the UN Foundation Report in the field of population (UNFPA), the birth rate in many countries of the world has reached low indicators.
It was also reported that in Ukraine in the first half of 2025, the number of dead nearly three times exceeded the number of born.
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