In an alarming scenario, the United States has reported a record decline in its overall birth rate for 2018!<\/p>\n
According to a latest report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the birth rate was only 59 per 1,000 women in the age group of 15-44 years, showing a 2% decline over 2017.<\/p>\n
Surprisingly, this is the record low rate since the country started tracking birth rates since 1909, the report revealed.<\/p>\n
Looking at more statistics, US witnessed only 3.8 million births in 2018 hitting the lowest decline in the last 32 years.<\/p>\n
Age-wise, birth rates in case of women of 32 years decreased normally, while those in the age group of 20 years reported 4 percent decline during 2017-18.<\/p>\n
Whereas, the birth rate among females in the 15-19 age group decline 7 percent, at the rate of 17 births per 1000 teens, during 2017-18.<\/p>\n
However, there was a slight rise in case of women under 35-39 and 40-44 age groups!<\/p>\n
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Even the fertility rate of 1.7 births per US woman also declined 2%, causing a serious concern over population growth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
According to experts, the country would have witnessed around 5.7 million births if fertility rates had not declined below precession levels.<\/p>\n
Summarized,<\/strong><\/p>\n
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- Overall, birth rate among US women in the age group of 15-44 years was 59 births per 1,000 women<\/li>\n
- 2018 saw 2 percent fall in number of births compared to 2017<\/li>\n
- Births to teenage females reached a record low, with 8% decline among the 15-19 years old females<\/li>\n
- Premature birth rate, delivery at less than 37 weeks, increased for the 4th<\/sup> consecutive year to just over 10% from 9.9%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n