Nearly 3.7 million births in the U.S. were reported last year, up from the roughly 3.6 million births recorded in 2020. However, there were still about 86,000 fewer births in the U.S. last year than in 2019, when the COVID pandemic started.
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The US birth rate fell 4% last year, the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 years, according to a government report being released Wednesday. The rate dropped for moms of every major race and ethnicity, and in nearly age group, falling to the lowest point since federal health officials started tracking it more than a century ago. Births have been declining in younger women for years, as many postponed motherhood and had smaller families. Birth rates for women in their late 30s and in their 40s have been inching up. But not last year. The fact that you saw declines in births even for older moms is quite striking, said Brady Hamilton, of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the lead author of the new report.
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The U.S. birthrate declined for the sixth straight year and total births dropped to a 42-year-low, according to statistics released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).