New York — American births rose slightly last year, but experts do not see this as evidence of a long -term decrease.
A little more than 3.6 million births have been reported for 2024, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Initial Data. This is more than 22250 of the final outcome of the year 2023, the United States’ births, which were released on Tuesday.
It is likely that the total of 2024 will grow at least when the numbers are completed, however Another set of initial data The total birth rates of only one group of people appear: women of Spanish origin.
The height-less than 1 %-may be just small fluctuations in the midst of a wider direction.
“I will be reluctant to read a lot in the increase of 2023-24, and certainly does not serve as an indication of the reflection of the direction towards the lower or declining US fertility,” Koler said, adding that more analysis is needed to understand any changes that occurred in the pattern of birth last year.
American births and birth rates have decreased for years. They decreased most of the years after the recession 2008-2009, regardless rose For two consecutive years after that, experts have attributed partially an increase to pregnancies that were postponed among the epidemic.
A 2 % decrease in 2023 puts births in less than 3.6 million, The slightest balance for one year Since 1979, Vermont was the lowest birth in that year, and Utah was the highest level, according to a 86 -page Tuesday report on 2023 birth data.
The report explains, based on a review of all birth certificates presented in that year, that the average age of mothers at the first birth continued to rise, reaching 27 and a half years. It was 21/2 in the early seventies of the last century, before it started climbing.
Experts say the birth rates have been declining for a long time for adolescents and younger women, but they were rising for women in the thirties and forties – a reflection of women who follow education and professions before trying to start families. But in 2023, birth rates decreased for women in almost all age groups, including women in the early 1940s.
The 2024 primary birth rate data shows a continuous decrease between adolescents and women in the early twenties. But he also showed increases for women in late twenties, due to the high births of Latin women. The increases were also seen for women in their thirties, due to the height between Latin and white women, and those in their forties, due to the height among white women.
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