U.S. Birth Rate Hits Historic Low

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U.S. Birth Rate Hit Historic Low in 2011, CDC Says

Americans had fewer babies in 2011 than in any year before, according to an annual summary of vital statistics.

In 2011, 3,953,593 babies were born in the U.S. -- 1 percent fewer than in 2010 and 4 percent fewer than in 2009, according to Brady Hamilton, PhD, of the CDC in Atlanta, and colleagues at the agency and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.

That number, combined with population data, yielded a crude birth rate of 12.7 per 1,000 people, the lowest rate ever reported for the nation, they reported online and in the March 2013 issue of Pediatrics.

The general fertility rate -- defined as the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15 through 44 -- also fell by 1 percent, to a record low of 63.2 in 2011, down from 64.1 in 2010.

But the declines were not uniform according to age, the authors pointed out.

The birth rate among all teenagers (ages 15-19) fell by 8 percent from 2010 to 2011, reaching a historic low of 31.3 births per 1,000 women. That rate has been falling for years, Hamilton and colleagues noted and is down 49 percent from 1991, the most recent peak.

The birth rate for teens 15 through 17 fell 11 percent, to 15.4 per 1,000 in 2011, while the rate for 18- and 19-year-olds was down 7 percent, to 54.1 per 1,000.

Rates also fell for women in their 20s, but rose for women 35 through 39 and 40 through 44 years, Hamilton and colleagues found. Rates for women 45 through 49 were unchanged.

The authors also found that the rate of cesarean delivery was unchanged in 2011 at 32.8%, after increasing from 1996 to 2009.

Also, the rate of preterm birth – infants delivered at less than 37 weeks of gestation per 100 births -- was 11.72 percent, down from 11.99 percent in 2010. The decline is the fifth straight, but still leaves the rate higher than the in the 1980s and most of the 1990s.

The rate of low birth weight, defined as less than 2,500 grams, was 8.10 percent in 2011, slightly down from 8.15 percent in 2010.

Finally, preliminary data showed 23,910 infant deaths in the U.S., for an infant mortality rate of 6.05 deaths per 1,000 live births.

The analysis also looked at the other end of the lifespan, reporting 2,513,171 deaths overall in the U.S. in 2011, which was 44,736 more than a year earlier.

But when adjusted for age, the death rate in 2011 was 7.4 deaths per 1,000 U.S. standard population, down 1.3 percent from 7.5 in 2010, the researchers found.

All told, 20,192 children and adolescents died in 2011, yielding a death rate for children, ages 1 through 19, of 25.6 per 100,000 population that was not significantly different from 25.8 in 2010.

The leading cause of death in 2011 for children and adolescents was accidents, at 35.6 percent of all deaths, down significantly from 37 percent in 2010, while the second leading cause was homicide, accounting for 11.4 percent of deaths in 2011, again down significantly from 12.1 percent in 2010.

U.S. Birth Rate Hits Historic Low - ABC News

I think the reasons are pretty obvious, but what does HL think? Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Will they go back up sometime soon?

 

[M617]

its a great thing there's already enough people here. young people are being smarter because honestly having kids under 30 is stupid and your life is over

now we just to tell these damn hispanics to get with the program and the world may be a better place.

 

[Shogun]

good, population outta control.

 

[Liquid]

good. More money for those in our 20s-30s in the future. I don't want any aspiring young fukks trying to take all our cash when we are

 

[Liquid]

its a great thing there's already enough people here. young people are being smarter because honestly having kids under 30 is stupid and your life is over

now we just to tell these damn hispanics to get with the program and the world may be a better place.

good, population outta control.

wait...you two are not serious are you?

The only positive is the percentage drop from younger people IMO

 

[Blackking]

Good thing, ... and not because there are fewer white babies born. I think that in a depressed economy the rates naturally drop. Immigrants aren't fitting the stereotype of 15 kids anymore either.

 

[#StarkSet]

U.S. Birth Rate Hits Historic Low - ABC News

I think the reasons are pretty obvious, but what does HL think? Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Will they go back up sometime soon?

happens in every industrialized nation, kids cost a shyt load of money


the rate would be even lower if it wasn't for all the illegals having babies

 

[M617]

wait...you two are not serious are you?

The only positive is the percentage drop from younger people IMO

im serious.....its 2013 we are smarter than ever and living longer than ever. what do we need to bring more kids into the world for?

 

[Shogun]

wait...you two are not serious are you?

The only positive is the percentage drop from younger people IMO

dead serious

we a plague on this earth, breh

 

[The Electric Lady]

Good. Young people will start having children again when we are financially able to do so.

 

[Black Hans]

im serious.....its 2013 we are smarter than ever and living longer than ever. what do we need to bring more kids into the world for?

 

[DEAD7]

good.

 

[88m3]

high income/ low income /education




time for eugenics

 

[PortCityProphet]

i think it's good. high birth rates/population put a strain on resources, money, jobs etc. i mean one of the reasons social security is failing is because the sheer number of baby boomers and how long they live right?
besides we aren't in the farm days no point in having 5+ kids anymore

 

[CouldntBeMeTho]

dead serious

we a plague on this earth, breh

world population has been projected to level off.

USATODAY.com - World population to level off

This is actually terrible news, there wont be social security if there are no young people to pay into it. more old people and less young people will put a huge strain on the economy. look at Japan

one of Japan's most pressing issues: its rapidly aging and shrinking population.

In fact, most people in rural parts of Japan have first-hand experience with the effects of population decline and low fertility. Many rural towns have elderly populations well over 30% and one of the increasingly common scenes along rural roadways is the empty house once occupied by an elderly couple or single elder, and in the past by a three-generation family. It is a common refrain among residents of rural towns that walking around town you never see young faces; all of the people you meet are old. Indeed, one elementary school in Iwate Prefecture with which I am well acquainted has a total of about 50 students taking classes in a building designed for over 200 – this has been normal for at least the past decade. Rural Japan today provides a very good window into what will be a much less populated future for Japan in general.

Japan’s Demographic Nightmare


seriously all you eugenicists have been brainwashed, you dont realize youre saying your descendants shouldnt be alive