WASHINGTON: The US fertility rate hit a record low last year, extending a nearly two-decade decline as fewer women had children and many delayed starting families, provisional data from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed on Thursday.
Fertility has been trending lower in the US for nearly two decades, with the general fertility rate falling nearly 23 per cent since 2007, according to the agency’s data.
The number of babies born in 2025 declined 1 per cent from a year earlier to roughly 3.6 million, while the general fertility rate - the number of births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 - also slipped 1 per cent to 53.1, the data showed.
