Projections Show U.S. Birth Rate Declined by 4.3% in 25 States in 2020
Projections Show U.S. Birth Rate Declined by 4.3% in 25 States in 2020 On 4/28/21 at 12:25 PM EDT Associated Press analysis of preliminary data from half the country. Data from 25 states suggests an 8% decline in births from December 2020 to February 2021. That three-month span had about 41,000 fewer births than the same period a year earlier. Births for all of 2020 were down 4.3 percent from 2019. "When there's a crisis, I don't think people are thinking about reproduction," said Dr. John Santelli, a Columbia University professor of population and family health who reviewed the AP's analysi...