The US birth rate has fluctuated over the years and can be influenced by factors such as economic stability.
The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to a new low of 1.6 children per woman, according to new data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The data released on Thursday continues a trend in birth rates that has been sliding downward for nearly two decades.
“We’re seeing this as part of an ongoing process of fertility delay. We know that the US population is still growing, and we still have a natural increase — more births than deaths,” Leslie Root, a University of Colorado Boulder researcher focused on fertility and population policy, told The Associated Press news agency.
The US fertility rate has gone up and down over the years, reaching 3.5 percent in the early 1960s before dropping to 1.7 percent by 1976 and then rebounding to 2.1 percent in 2007.
