The number of births in the United States increased slightly in 2024 to about 3.6 million, according to temporary data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The 1 % small increase comes in the number of births amid a long -term decrease that started during the large recession period, around 2008. temporary data was released on Wednesday.
However, at least one population warned against extracting any conclusions about a direction of data – noting that the increasing American families face continuous challenges in economic uncertainty, housing costs and children’s care.
“There are still very fundamental transformations of fertility and family in the United States,” said Hans Peter Koler, sociologist and professor who studies the population composition of the family at the University of Pennsylvania.
Koler added that economic uncertainty, the cost of housing and children care, and changes in the importance of people feeling that they contributed to the low fertility “that are shared between different high -income countries, and I expect to continue.”
The report showed that a low number of girls and women in adolescence, while the number of women between the ages of 40 and 44-has increased-a trend that has continued without interruption since 1985. The number of births is supported by Latin and Asian women, which increased birth rates.
The National Center for Health Statistics at the Center for Control of Diseases examines data based on almost all newborns registered in 2024. The report depends on the temporary data that was issued In March.
It seems that the simple increase on an annual basis in births is largely attributed to Latin and Asian mothers, whose number of births increased by 4 % and 5 %, respectively. The number of births has decreased by 4 % for black women, 3 % for indigenous American and Alaska women, and less than 1 % for white women. Golds have not changed mainly for the original women in Hawaii and the Pacific Islands.
The Disease Control Center report did not address the causes that the Americans choose to have children. However, growing American families face a set of challenges.
The United States is in the midst of the child care crisis, with a lack of workers, high costs and long waiting lists for young children. However, the Trump administration suggested reducing education even for the most children of the nation Get rid of the beginning Full financing. For advanced democracies of peers, the United States government is already investing Very little In early childhood education.
However, the Trump administration is Weight options To pay more couples of two different sexes to have children, an idea supported by close consultants such as JD Vance, Vice President, Eileon Musk, and. “A supporter of Rabat” a movement.
Koler said he suspects that relatively modest proposals will change the fertility rate.
He said: “If one really wants to make a deep installation or a tendency to fertility, one will have to do something very important.”
He said that the challenges faced by families are just a different arrangement from the size than the policies discussed by the current administration.
The report also did not address the impact of miscarriage on birth rates. supreme court Turn National right to abortion in 2022. Since then, Dozens of countries The prohibition of total abortion, most of them in the south and west, was enacted.
there Some research The indication is that the rates of births and infant deaths in countries with a ban have increased more than expected, even Tens of thousands It is women traveling through state lines in an attempt to end pregnancy.
