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US Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
Live Science ^ | 12/04/2014 | by Bahar Gholipour

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: birthrate; demographics; poverty
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To: TexasFreeper2009

We’ve had 9, 10, 11 and 12 since 2007. Obama never scared us. The future belongs to those who show up.


41 posted on 12/04/2014 3:54:35 PM PST by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: Theophilus

Congrats!


42 posted on 12/04/2014 3:56:03 PM PST by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: SeekAndFind

43 posted on 12/04/2014 4:03:32 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: huldah1776

Overwhelm every country they migrate to by sheer numbers. The idea is to conquer their host.


44 posted on 12/04/2014 4:06:51 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: samiam1972

caused by Global Warming! White Racism and George Bush.


45 posted on 12/04/2014 4:11:03 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: KeyLargo

Have Kids you Conservatives! raise em right too! Each couple should have two more! If you too old adopt.


46 posted on 12/04/2014 4:12:49 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Theophilus

You’re THE MAN!

Merry Christmas to you and your family.


47 posted on 12/04/2014 4:16:07 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Theophilus

Win, place, and show! Father Brian, co-founder of the Missionaries of the Poor, tells me every time we meet that I need to have 12 children, like his mother (in Jamaica, in poverty almost unimaginable in the U.S.).


48 posted on 12/04/2014 4:16:35 PM PST by Tax-chick (R.I.P., Dad, 11/25/14. Thanks for the lawyers, guns, and money.)
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To: Theophilus

Congratulations! We’ve had four more since then as well :)


49 posted on 12/04/2014 4:17:15 PM PST by Trillian
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To: Trillian; Theophilus

I’ve only had two since 2007.


50 posted on 12/04/2014 4:18:37 PM PST by Tax-chick (R.I.P., Dad, 11/25/14. Thanks for the lawyers, guns, and money.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Bingo

Give them SS No’s and then they don’t have to fix that problem.


51 posted on 12/04/2014 4:21:15 PM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well, everybody is gay now, so there’s that.


52 posted on 12/04/2014 4:33:45 PM PST by RetSignman (Obama is the walking, talking middle finger in the face of America)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

We have seven, doing our part!


53 posted on 12/04/2014 4:40:27 PM PST by cantbetooconservative (I miss Ronald Reagan)
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To: SeekAndFind

self identified conservative American families (you know, a husband and a wife) average having THREE children
self identified liberal American couples average ONE child

Keep it going, folks!


54 posted on 12/04/2014 4:44:59 PM PST by cantbetooconservative (I miss Ronald Reagan)
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To: 353FMG

Ah, no wonder the sunni head of the administration has a religious fervor towards obamination-care. Keep the majority birth rate below replacement or negative growth. Bet saul alinsky didn’t even think of that one. Probably has a lot to do with getting suicide legalized too in time for the end of life of the greatest generation.

I’ll have to remember to look up the politics of the hippy generation. You know, maybe we deserve all this crud.


55 posted on 12/04/2014 6:29:36 PM PST by huldah1776
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To: SeekAndFind

What percentage of Americans will be of Northern Europeans ancestry in 2050 ?


56 posted on 12/04/2014 10:13:22 PM PST by jonatron (This is the Land of the Free, the Home of the Brave.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Less and less potential workers to support the glut of freeloaders....which way will that wind blow when the bough breaks: will the People win or will the government finally have its final coup?


57 posted on 12/05/2014 3:36:49 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: jonatron

RE: What percentage of Americans will be of Northern Europeans ancestry in 2050 ?

I think the issue of where one’s ancestry is from is less important than what CULTURE and LANGUAGE America will be predominate 50 years from now.

America as we know it was founded on Judaeo-Christian principles. There is no guarantee that even if we suddenly have a huge wave of Northern Europeans coming that the same people will be holding to the same principles.

The average of the world’s great civilizations before they decline has been 250 to 300 years. These nations have progressed in this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith,
From spiritual faith to great courage,
From courage to liberty,
From liberty to abundance,
From abundance to selfishness,
From selfishness to complacency,
From complacency to apathy,
From apathy to dependency,
From dependency back again to bondage.


58 posted on 12/05/2014 5:26:52 AM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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