Posted on 12/04/2014 2:12:43 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The U.S. birth rate reached an all-time low in 2013, as the number of babies born in the country declined for the sixth straight year since the peak in 2007, a new report finds.
The country's birth rate dipped to 62.5 births per 1,000 women between ages 15 and 44, according to the report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That is 10 percent lower than the birth rate in 2007, which was 69.3 per 1,000 women, and a record low since the government started tracking birth rates in 1909, when birth rate was 126.8.
In 2013, there were 3.93 million babies born in the U.S., down less than 1 percent from 2012, and down 9 percent from 2007, when a record-breaking 4.32 million babies were born in the U.S.
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Looks like we are headed for a demise like Japan.
My church seems to be very much not participating in this low birthrate thing.
If native-born Americans refuse to have children, population growth has to come from somewhere if the economy isn’t going to collapse. Uncontrolled immigration is a problem, but it’s mitigating the demographic winter American Anglos have chosen for themselves.
Michelle Duggar and I are 48. Someone else has to do it now.
Congratulations!
:)
The demographic crash finally gets to America. We were one of the few developed nations that still had a birthrate sufficient to replace mom and dad. Most other developed countries are way below replacement rate. Even most of the less developed nations are at, below, or approaching replacement rate—India, Brazil, China to name a few.
The not-so-funny thing about this is that the world is heading for a dramatic population implosion starting 20-30 years from now. But the conventional wisdom (overpopulation) was set in the 70’s by the Paul Erlich’s et al and no one has bothered to look at the data since.
Unfortunately, many Muslim countries do not share in this birth dearth. The last group to adopt contraception wins. Our great, great granddaughters will probably wear burkhas and have their genitals mutilated simply because civilized people stopped having babies.
Well, no ... but plenty of children are born to parents who weren’t “trying,” so one never knows.
:)
Fundamentally transformed.
Because they do not abort or use contraceptives? Why is that? Haven’t read the Koran lately so I don’t know why.
And what's that I hear rumbling in the distance? Why, it sounds like --- Inshallah!
According to a 2012 Bureau of the Census estimateThe nation’s total population would cross the 400 million mark in 2051, reaching 420.3 million in 2060.
I find this to be another disinformation ploy. It comes at a time when Obama has just given amnesty to 5 million. The meme is that we need more immigration because we have low birth rates. The US population will increase by 100 million in the next 45 years. In 1970 we had a population of 201 million; today it is 320 million. We have added almost 40 million since 2000.
You can’t have more kids when your already careing for the thousands that are pouring across our borders,
People don’t have babies when they’re gay, can’t afford to, or think Obamaland would be a horrible place to raise a child...
The developed world sex distribution rate at birth is of 107 males for every 100 females born. (http://populationaction.org/reports/replacement-fertility-not-constant-not-2-1-but-varying-with-the-survival-of-girls-and-young-women/)
This produces a population replacement birthrate of 2.07 children per woman. At this rate, the population is stable in size, neither growing nor shrinking. It is also balanced in its sex distribution with roughly equal numbers of males and females. (Statistically, the seven extra males reflect the fact that boys have a higher mortality rate compared to females during childhood.)
Using a 2.07 child per woman birthrate requirement, a cohort of 1000 women collectively would need to have 2070 children (1000 female, 1070 males) between the ages of 15 and 44.
This works out to an annualized birthrate of 71.4 children per 1000 women per year, far below the 62.5 per thousand figure cited in the article.
On July 1, 1946 (12 days before I was hatched) the population was 141,00,000. We’ve doubled that number plus almost 40M more.
“Michelle Duggar and I are 48.”
She oughta be good for another half-dozen. I think she’s shooting for two football teams, anyway.
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