CDC: U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women
By Terence P. Jeffrey
October 31, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate (63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever reported for the United States,” said the report.
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