(Atlanta, GA) – Fertility rates in the U.S. are at a record low and the number of births is at the lowest in decades. According to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control, just under three-point-six million babies were born here last year, a two percent decline. The birth rate was at around one-point-six births per one-thousand women, lower than the two-point-one percent needed to sustain a population. It’s the lowest number of births since 1979 and the lowest fertility rate ever recorded.
Births were down for women across most ethnic groups except Hispanics, which saw a one percent jump, and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders, which saw rates unchanged.
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