Posted on 01/02/2026 8:35:55 PM PST by Morgana
Baby populations have hit an all-time low in the United States - and surprisingly, family-friendly Utah is leading the decline, new data reveals.
The baby boom helped shape modern American housing after World War II, fueling rapid suburban expansion, the rise of single-family homes and the birth of roughly 79 million babies nationwide.
Fast forward to today, and the US fertility rate has fallen to 1.6 children per woman in 2024, according to a Realtor.com analysis.
The gap is striking: the US fertility rate of 1.6 is well below the replacement rate of roughly two - the number of children each woman needs to have to sustain the population - and below the 2.1 average in other developed countries.
Over the past decade, the share of Americans under five has plunged, signaling that adults now outnumber children in nearly every state.
A recent analysis of the US Census American Community Survey, comparing 2010 to 2024 data across nearly every metro, found that the steepest declines in the under-five population are clustered in the West.
Five of the largest falls are unexpectedly in Utah, despite the state’s reputation for a family-friendly culture, according Realtor.com's findings.
The accelerated wave of decline has also reached smaller cities in both Colorado and Nevada.
In the midst of a countrywide drop, a few cities stand out for bucking the trend - most notably Kokomo, Indiana, where the under-five share rose from 5.4 percent to 6.4 percent.
It’s important to note, however, that this data doesn’t measure the number of babies born or living in a city - instead, it shows the share of children under five relative to the total population.
There are usually two reasons for this phenomenon: either fewer young children, or faster growth among other age groups.
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Covid shot infertility
That too.
Between Marxist feminism, birth control pills, and Kinsey’s license for female promiscuity, it worked.
No problem, I am told dogs are a reasonable substitute. In fact, “dogs are better than people”.
Fertility rate and birth rate are two different things.
Fertility rate is the number of children born per woman.
Birth rate is the number of babies born in a time period (usually one year) as per capitia of the population.
If a certain area has a high number of 20 to 40 year old woman, than it fertility rate could be 1, yet the birth rate might be 2.
The birthrate is the important number to demographers. Fertility rate is important to medical statisticians.
The following table shows the number of live births and the crude birth rate (births per 1,000 total population)
2023 . . . . 3,596,017. . . . 10.7
2024 . . . . 3,628,934. . . . 10.9
2025 . . . . 3,645,820 . . . 11.0 (prelininary #)
2024 provisional update: In 2024 there were 3,628,934 births in the United States (provisional). The general fertility rate was 53.8 births per 1,000 women ages 15–44. (Crude birth rate for 2024 is not shown here because final population denominators are pending.)
https://theworlddata.com/american-birth-rate-by-year/
The number of births has been steadily declining since at least 2015, but the last three years have been basically even. This means the birth rate should be going down as the population of the country increases.
2025 and 2026 deportations are going to play havoc with these stats.
The American woman is no longer sexually desirable.
Covid shot infertility
Do you have any evidence that there is a large number of vaxed woman who cannot give birth for trying?
This is a world-wide phenomenon, not just a U.S. issue.
Theres no requirement population has to increase all the time.
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The thought of being connected to many modern women is terrifying to men. They are out to cause a world of hurt to men. And mothers, they are not qualified to be.
Anyone else see the blatant error the author committed here?
Israel is the only Developed Country with a fertility rate above 2.0 - followed by New Zealand, with a rate of about 1.8 (still well below replacement levels).
So, with the extraordinary exception of Israel, NO Developed Country can sustain itself at current reproductive levels.
Regards,
Legions of 15-year-old American boys would dispute that.
The truth is: There is a severe shortage of American women fit to be wives.
Regards,
Teach a couple of generations of young women that promiscuity is "empowering" (instead of the correct word: "disgusting") and combine that with divorce laws that overwhelmingly favor the wife, even if she's a cheater, and this is what you get.
It's the endgame of feminism, which -- at least in it's "third wave" and "fourth wave" incarnations, is cultural cyanide.
No: ease of abortion: 63% via pill = human sewage. 3,118–3,392 abortions/day (clinician + self-managed). See https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4359890/posts
As regards motherhood itself, the average woman uses some form of birth control for about 30 years during her reproductive life. In the U.S., around 10.4% of women use long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) like IUDs, while 18.1% opt for female sterilization. And rather than marriage,...
The marriage rate in 2022 (31.3 women married in that year per one thousand unmarried women) represents a 54% decline since 1900. less than half of American households have included a married couple for over a decade. Related to this, in 2024, the average age for a first marriage was 30.2 years for men and 28.6 for women. the youngest median ages of marriage were in 1956, when it was 22.5 for men and 20.1 for women.
Marriage rates have declined across all races and ethnicities except Asian men and women, who’ve had the highest rate among all races and ethnicities since 2004. The biggest decreases in marriage rates were among Hispanic men and women. Black men and women have historically had the lowest marriage rate among all races and ethnicities. For Black men, that rate dropped from 45.1% in 1990 to 37.8%. For Black women, it dropped from 40.2% to 33.3%. - https://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/family-profiles/FP-24-10.html; https://theworlddata.com/unmarried-birth-rate-by-race/
. The Mountain West region, including Utah (21.3%) and Idaho (approximately 23-25%), maintains the nation’s lowest unmarried birth rates..The Southern states show dramatically different patterns, with Louisiana (55.5%), Mississippi (54.9%), and several other Southern states exceeding 50% unmarried births.Approximately 48.5% of single mothers serving as custodial parents receive some form of government assistance, but specific data on those not reporting living with a boyfriend is not readily available. Many single mothers may not disclose cohabitation status due to various reasons, including privacy concerns or fear of losing benefits. - duckduckgo.com search assist.
In 2023, the national rate for unmarried women stood at 36.4 per 1,000, while the percentage of all births that were non-marital reached 40.0%. Non-Hispanic Black women and American Indian or Alaska Native women have the highest percentages of non-marital births, according to 2023 data. For non-Hispanic Black women, 69.3% of all births were to unmarried mothers, representing the highest proportion across all groups. American Indian or Alaska Native women followed closely, with 68.7% of all births occurring outside of marriage. Hispanic women recorded the next highest proportion, with 54.2% of all births categorized as non-marital. [though that does not mean there is no man in the house, at least for a while]. Non-Hispanic White women saw a large proportional increase in non-marital births, rising from 17% of all births in 1990 to 26.8% in 2023. - https://legalclarity.org/unmarried-birth-rate-by-race-us-statistics-and-trends/
And in another of a list of negative firsts, Washington D.C. has the lowest marriage rate by far (31.5%). - https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/marriage-rate-by-state .
When nations reach a plateau of economic prosperity unique to that nation, their birthrate automatically and naturally drops to about 2.1 children per family. It is very hard for government to raise this level, even incrementally, *but* they can readily force it even lower with their policies.
There is one glaring exception to this, the post WWII baby boom. It had several factors that created a “perfect storm” of babies.
Internal migration of young couples to new cities, with employment for men only. Minimal entertainment. Young women supported each other through pregnancy and child rearing. The list goes on and on.
Our church is having a baby boom! Baptisms almost every week. You won’t see any of these Covenant children in the government schools.
Let’s not forget abortion. 1.2 million a year is a lot of lost population. Throw in acceptance of homosexuality too. That doesn’t increase population either.
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