The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it’s been in more than a century.
There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics.
After a steep plunge in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, the fertility rate has fluctuated. But the 3% drop between 2022 and 2023 brought the rate just below the previous low from 2020, which was 56 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age.
Good news for my kids. Less scarcity for them. This is what the world needs. Less kids. Everywhere.
You mean more older people to support for each worker, so higher taxes on workers
You have it backwatds, there will not be the same quantity of stuff divided by fewer people. There will be less of everything to begin with.
Explain: Why would there be fewer crops, and fewer minerals?