The birth of the United States increased only 1 % in 2024, and it was still a record low proportion of population statistics and the central part of the Trump administration’s cultural agenda. According to the released data Disease control and prevention center on Wednesday.
Last year, more than 3.6 million babies were born in the United States, and the poor proportions increased in 2023. In the lifetime, about 1.6 birth rates per woman are much lower than the 2.1 births required to maintain the country’s population through birth.
Ken Johnson, a demographic scholar of the University of New Hampshire, represents a “long -term decline in the long -term birth of the United States, which began in 2007.”
The reason for this number and their consistent decrease is widely known as a problem that can affect the US economy for decades.
Trump demanded a “baby boom” and joined the conservative “Pronathalist” movement aimed at persuading more Americans to marry and have many babies.
The vice president of JD Vance and other people in the Provesylist criticized the young Americans without children, insisting that they contributed to the potential collapse of the US population due to the destruction of the nuclear family and the traditional gender role.
Reduction is due to the amazing change of the WHO who gives birth. Most of the long -term tendency may be due to the actual decline in teenage pregnancy over the last decades.
In 1991, the most recent nation in the teenager was born 61.8, which was 1,000 15-19 years old, but the number decreased to 12.7 by 2024, which was small.
From the 1990s and 2000s, the US birth rate was about two children per woman, and Karen Benjamin Guzzo, a demographic scholar of the University of North Carolina.
But the number was actually raised by the number. High ratio Distinguishing the United States from Europe and Asian countries during teenage pregnancy was already full of fertility at a much lower rate than the replacement level without teenage pregnancy.
Dr. Guzzo said, “We were so unique.
Since 2000, the access to contraception has been expanded and helped to occur slowly. Unintended pregnancy And since then, teenagers have been decreased.
But after the Great recession, the birthplace fell from other groups. Women in their 20s. 2007The birth of 1,000 to 24 years of age was 106.3 years old, but the number decreased to 56.7 by 2024. The highest date of birth in 2007 was between 25 and 29 years, and was born in 117.5 years per 1,000 women. This number fell to 91.4 in 2024.
This reduction did not match similar birth growth among women in their 30s.
“One of the big questions is all born. Is it just delayed?” Dr. Johnson said. “Will these women take these babies later than any other way?
At least some of the recent data are giving birth to children, Dr. Johnson added:
however SurveyMany young Americans still say they want to have two children. Changing attitudes can play an important role in the decrease in childbearing age, but demographic scholars point out that the number of obstacles faced by those who want to start family is increasing.
Dr. GUZZO said economic conditions such as economic conditions-student debt, mandatory family vacations in the federal government, high childcare costs, and home-owned housing are likely to play a big role in the US parenting performance.
“People don’t have a child when they don’t feel good about their future. ”
The proposal raft discussed in the Trump administration provides a $ 5,000 “baby bonus” to new mothers, including funding for some of the nations, and the higher the average birth and marriage rate to provide an incentive to give Americans a more baby to give birth to more babies to give Americans a more baby’s “baby bonus” scholarship for marriage or children who have married or children. Increase.
Some of these ideas have gained the support of the Democratic Party, which have long insisted on more help for the working family, but there is a doubt that one -time intervention will actually increase the birth rate meaningfully, experts said.
Dr. Johnson said it is unlikely to promote the population profit necessary to return to the alternative level by increasing fertility rate.
“Of course, immigration is another factor,” he added. Most immigrants are moving young and to start their families. “Immigrants just don’t bring themselves,” he said. “They bring the baby’s potential in the future.”
