The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics has just issued a new study on declining birth and fertility rates in the United States, which shows that in 2020 both rates fell for the sixth consecutive year, hitting the lowest levels since 1979. According to a summary published by CNBC, “the number of births in the U.S. declined last year by 4% from 2019, double the average annual rate of decline of 2% since 2014…. Total fertility rates and general fertility rates also declined by 4% since 2019, reaching record lows.”
With dropping birth rates and rising death rates (in significant degree due to the COVID pandemic), the U.S. is now “below replacement levels,” meaning more people die every day than are being born.
