CNN —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 century.
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.
The birth rate fell among most age groups between 2022 and 2023, the new report shows.
For older women, the option of waiting is not as viable.”Meanwhile, births continued to shift to older mothers.
Provisional births data is based on birth records received and processed by the National Center for Health Statistics as of January 25.
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