US births fell in 2023 to the lowest count in more than 40 years
Associated PressNEW YORK — U.S. births fell last year, resuming a long national slide. Mark called that development surprising and said “there’s some evidence that not just postponement is going on.” Rates fell across almost all racial and ethnic groups. There could be an adjustment to the 2023 data, but it won’t be enough to erase the “sizeable” decline seen in the provisional numbers, said the CDC’s Brady Hamilton, the new report’s first author. The new report indicates that the decision didn’t lead to a national increase in births, but the researchers didn’t analyze birth trends in individual states or dissect data among all demographic groups. Whatever the case, the flattening of birth rates for high school students is worrisome and indicates that “whatever we’re doing for kids in middle and high school is faltering,” Santelli said.
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