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Birthrates among women 15-24 have dropped sharply
- MikeUt 5y ago> The total fertility rate—a snapshot of the average number of babies a woman would have over her lifetime—fell to 1.64. To put that in perspective, replacement-level fertility is 2.1. The US has been below-replacement since 1973 [1]. Yet the population has grown (or rather, been added to) from 203M in 1970, to 332M in 2020 [2], despite the contribution of the 1970s population having diminished. [1] https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fertility-rate https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/USA/united-states/fert... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_United_States#Historical_Census_population https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_the_Uni...
- nabla9 5y agoGood news. 15-18 should not have kids at all. Many 18-24 pregnancies are often unplanned. So there should be some decline.