From CNN:
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.
I don’t know what the point of the underlying article is as it provided no facts other than the initial statement from CNN which actually just copied a CDC statement.
The 54.4 number could actually go up as the number of “females ages 15 to 44” is decreasing and will continue to do so for the next several years.
[I just spent about half an hour trying to find the data to support the above statement only to find the opposite for the next 5 years. If you push the current populations five years forward (with no growth), it should have shown a decrease, but it actually shows a slight increase in 15 to 44 age population with the decline happening 10 years out.]
That is why I don’t take everything posted here at face value.
There are actually more males to females in every five year grouping until 45 to 50.