The U.S. birth rate has continued to decline, according to recently released statistics, with the reported number of babies born in 2023 being the lowest in decades.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics released a report this month analyzing provisional data received from birth records compiled for 2023.
According to the report, there were 3.59 million births in the U.S. in 2023, which was a 2% decline from 2022, with the number below the replacement level, which the report defined as “the level at which a given generation can exactly replace itself.”
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