Posted on 11/29/2020 6:54:09 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The United States is expected to have up to 500,000 fewer births next year as a result of the Chinese coronavirus crisis, according to research.
The research by the left-leaning Brookings Institute was published in the Wall Street Journal, detailing a grim future for the makers of baby and infant products because of fewer births spurred by the crisis.
The Journal notes:
The think tank has forecast between 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births in the U.S. next year, compared with a drop of 44,172 last year. Its analysis, partly based on what happened following the 2007-2009 recession, is that weaker job prospects equate to fewer births. “Women will have many fewer babies in the short term, and for some of them, a lower total number of children over their lifetimes,” it said in a June report. [Emphasis added]
The data was originally published in June and revealed that such a decrease in U.S. births would account for a 10 percent decrease compared to 2019 births. The decrease means that the total number of babies to be born in the U.S. next year is projected at about double the total number of Americans who died with or from coronavirus.
Following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, demographers predicted that there would be a baby boom, as had happened in the second half of the 20th century following economic declines. But, the baby boom never came.
As Breitbart News reported, birth and fertility rate data released by the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that less than 3.8 million babies were born in the U.S. in 2018 — a drop of two percent, or almost 64,000 less births compared to the year before.
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They are NEVER going to end the lockdowns.
NEVER.
I have to agree. Genocide is their plan, especially White genocide! That’s why they want open borders.
I wonder if they are counting in all the births from illegals who are no longer crossing our borders just to drop a baby.
I would have thought that with other activities curtailed, reproduction would soar. I expected a COVID baby boomlet.
Time will tell.
Accompanied by a Planned Parentood boomlet no doubt.
More prognosticating by the “Experts”.
Joe Biden will make that up with 11 million new “immigrants” if he becomes President.
Nah. No one wants to bring a baby into this world.
You beat me to it..exactly what I thought.
Lemme guess, this why we need lots of new immigrants, right Lindsay?
Lower birth rates may have correlation with bars being closed in Texas.
Its because most young people are too self absorbed to make the sacrifice of raising children.
Yeah, if Biden’s in, this will be part of their brainwashing for wide open borders. Chamber of Commerce will predict doom without a zillion illegals coming in.
Trump needs to do an executive order ending birthright citizenship before the electors meet. That will freakout the left and media.
As I remember it, the girls always looked prettier at closing time.
No prom this year.
I would think births would possibly increase because people are home more
Wrong. You're referring to RESPONSIBLE people. Illegal criminal aliens and irresponsible lower social classes have no problem jumping on each other whenever the urge hits, no matter what's going on around them, and let the chips fall where they may. We more responsible people will be the ones to pick up the pieces for their folly, as usual.
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