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How does the US have a fertility rate of 1.7 then?

• naveen99 2y ago
  Because they aren’t limiting the counts to post menopausal women. they are counting all under 30 women who are just delaying having children. this even before accounting for egg freezing and other modern tricks that allow children even after menopause. Actually total fertility rate for women retiring from potential child bearing is around 2.4 in the 2020’s in the usa.
  • api 2y ago
    Have a reference for this?
    • naveen99 2y ago
      https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr73/nvsr73-02.pdf Look at table 2. Births for 35 and above women are increasing as births for under 25 women have decreased.