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[PegnVA]

We don't have to wait 15 years...

WHAT'S BEHIND THE FALLING U.S. BIRTHRATE?
May 13, 2021 · As reported by the Center for Disease Control, the number of births has been dropping for several years, with a 4% decline between 2019 and 2020. A 4% decline is significantly higher than the year-to-year declines recorded for prior years—between 2015 and 2019 yearly declines were about 1-2% between 2015 to 2019.

https://news.umich.edu/whats-behind-the-falling-u-s-birthrate/

[blackhawks]

I think it's partly current fallout from the established trend, partly the future.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/05/24/will-births-in-the-us-rebound-probably-not/

Recently released official U.S. birth data for 2020 showed that births have been falling almost continuously for more than a decade. For every 1,000 women of childbearing age (15 to 44), 55.8 of them gave birth in 2020, compared to 69.5 in 2007, a 20 percent decline.


https://www.statista.com/statistics/195943/birth-rate-in-the-united-states-since-1990/