{"id":311232,"date":"2024-04-28T11:42:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-28T16:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=311232"},"modified":"2024-04-28T22:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T03:38:00","slug":"us-birth-rates-fall-lowest-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/us-birth-rates-fall-lowest-recorded\/","title":{"rendered":"US birth rates fall to lowest ever recorded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Federal data released Thursday shows that the birth rate in the United States has fallen to a record low.<\/span><\/p>\n

The provisional numbers reveal there were just 1.62 births per woman in 2023 \u2013 a two percent decline from 2022, and the lowest rate ever since the government began tracking the data in the 1930s. In total, there were about 3.59 million births in the U.S. last year, with declines <\/span>seen<\/span><\/a> across all races and ethnicities. According to the <\/span>Wall Street Journal<\/span><\/a>, the number of births last year was the lowest since 1979.<\/span><\/p>\n

The numbers indicate a future population crisis for the U.S. as they fall well below the \u201creplacement rate,\u201d which is considered to be 2.1 births per woman.<\/span><\/p>\n

“The total fertility rate in 2023 remained below replacement \u2014 the level at which a given generation can exactly replace itself (2,100 births per 1,000 women),” the report <\/span>read<\/span><\/a>. “The rate has generally been below replacement since 1971 and consistently below replacement since 2007.”<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve certainly had larger declines in the past. But decline fits the general pattern,\u201d <\/span>said<\/span><\/a> Dr. Brady Hamilton, a statistician with the National Center for Health Statistics and lead author of the new report.<\/span><\/p>\n

Elon Musk, who has been outspoken in raising the alarm about the world\u2019s plummeting population, warned that the U.S. is \u201cheading for extinction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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While many other countries are worse, America is trending towards extinction! https:\/\/t.co\/x6ak0T1k5r<\/a><\/p>\n

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 25, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n