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U.S. births declined in 2023, more women skipping prenatal care
Deseret News ^ | Aug 20, 2024 | Lois M. Collins

Posted on 08/20/2024 6:57:25 PM PDT by Steven Scharf

Deseret News U.S. births declined in 2023, more women skipping prenatal care Birth rate down 2% from the past 2 years Aug 20, 2024

Lois M. Collins

The number of births in the U.S. and the fertility rate both declined from 2022 to 2023. And for the second year in a row, so did prenatal care in the first trimester of pregnancy, including a growing share of mothers who got no prenatal care at all.

That’s according to the final count for 2023 from the National Center on Health Statistics within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, released Tuesday.

The fertility rate is the number of births per 1,000 females of childbearing age, 15 to 44.

The report also noted that the preterm birth rate (before 37 completed weeks of gestation) didn’t change, but 3 in 10 babies were born at 37 to 38 weeks gestation.

According to the report, 3,596,017 births were recorded in the United States, down 2% from 2022 and 2021. The general fertility rate dropped 3% to 54.5 births per 1,000 females ages 15-44, which is considered child-bearing age.

The birth rate for teens ages 15-19 continued to fall, this time by 4% from 2022 to 13.1 births per 1,000 females. That number was down 6% compared to 2021. The biggest change (a 5% drop) was among teens 18-19. Among those 15-17, the birth rate declined 2%.

Compared to the most recent highest number of births, in 2007, that’s a 17% decrease in births and a 21% drop in the fertility rate.

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TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 2023; usbirths
The article references this source CDC - NCHS - National Center for Health Statistics

Births in the United States, 2023 NCHS Data Brief No. 507, August 2024 Joyce A. Martin, M.P.H., Brady E. Hamilton Ph.D., and Michelle J.K. Osterman, M.H.S.

The number of births and the general fertility rate declined from 2022 to 2023.

In 2023, 3,596,017 births were registered in the United States, down 2% from 2022 (3,667,758) and 2021 (3,664,292).

The general fertility rate for the United States decreased 3% in 2023 to 54.5 births per 1,000 females ages 15–44 from 56.0 in 2022; the general fertility rate was also down 3% from 2021 (56.3).

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db507.htm

This is the last 6 years of Births and Deaths for the US. 2024 I have extrapolated based on 6 months data.

Year . . . . Births . . . . Deaths 2019 . . . . 3,747,540 . . . . 2,854,768 2020 . . . . 3,613,647 . . . . 3,383,729 2021 . . . . 3,664,292 . . . . 3,464,231 2022 . . . . 3,667,758 . . . . 3,279,857 2023 . . . . 3,596,017 . . . . 3,090,967 2024*. . . . 3,510,410 . . . . 3,064,718

* Estimated based on actual January to June 2024

Births are approaching deaths in the US.

1 posted on 08/20/2024 6:57:25 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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Year . . . . Births . . . . Deaths
2019 . . . . 3,747,540 . . . . 2,854,768
2020 . . . . 3,613,647 . . . . 3,383,729
2021 . . . . 3,664,292 . . . . 3,464,231
2022 . . . . 3,667,758 . . . . 3,279,857
2023 . . . . 3,596,017 . . . . 3,090,967
2024*. . . . 3,510,410 . . . . 3,064,718

Weird, the list did not post correctly.


2 posted on 08/20/2024 6:58:56 PM PDT by Steven Scharf
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The Great Replacement. Turn american women against their husbands and fathers by brainwashing them into becoming crazed communist liberals. Import millions and millions of replacement peoples every year.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 7:12:42 PM PDT by imabadboy99
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To: Steven Scharf
Jab induced sterility?
Women not trusting doctors anymore for prenatal care/

4 posted on 08/20/2024 7:17:07 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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No pre natal care? Didn’t Mullah Obama give us free health care ?


5 posted on 08/20/2024 7:46:12 PM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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No pre natal care? Didn’t Mullah Obama give us free health care ?


6 posted on 08/20/2024 8:06:32 PM PDT by llevrok (Say NO to a fourth Obama term!)
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To: imabadboy99

Birth rates are declining all over the world. The third world countries that are feeding into our illegal immigration pipeline also have birth rates below replacement level.

For a better understanding of what is going on, watch some youtube videos about the “mouse utopia” experiments. Despite having ample food, water, and shelter, the mouse colonies always started on a death pathway once the population reached a certain density. Their social behavior became deranged in ways that are very analogous to the human societal decays we have been observing for quite some time.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 8:28:04 PM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: Steven Scharf

The culture of self-extermination is in play. No need to fight a war to defeat Western civilization - just corrupt it and teach it to draw the knife across its’ own neck.


8 posted on 08/20/2024 8:30:02 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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The only developed nation with an above replacement birth rate is Israel. They're the exception, obviously.

Japan, South Korea and Singapore all have even lower birth rate than the U.S. so it's not just a problem in the Western world.

9 posted on 08/20/2024 8:31:18 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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