Baby Bust: US births continue their decline

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Not good at all, but also not really news at this point.

Good, that probably means less kids have awful parents.

Are you sure about that, what if it's the middle classes that are forgoing kids?

Then less kids would have awful middle-class parents.

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Raw birth data for Q1 2019 out, births were down 2.3% from 915,000 to 894,000. The fall accelerated as months went on in Q1, in January births were down 1.6% year on year, in February they fell 1.8% and in March births were down 3.5%. If a 2.3% fall occurs for the whole year births will fall to 3.701 million this year.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/provisional-tables.htm

[DINGO Joe]

WV is on track for fewer than 17,000 births this year.  In 1950, they had almost 51,000.

[DINGO Joe]

WV is on track for fewer than 17,000 births this year.  In 1950, they had almost 51,000.

Expanding on this a bit, the Yoy decline for 1Q WV was 8% which makes one wonder if there's incomplete or bad data.  Births in WV were quite static from 2010 thru 2014--20.8 to 20.3k/year.  They fell to 19.8 in 2015 and kept on tanking.  Would have thought there'd be a "Trump Bump" (ha) at some irrational exuberance point, but nope.

[Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God]

Good, good.  Fewer innocent souls being subject to the ills and evils of the world is never a bad thing.

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https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_13-508.pdf

2018 final data out, births down 1.7% to 3,791k.

Overall TFR down to 1.73 from 1.77

Non-Hispanic White TFR down to 1.64 from 1.67

Black TFR down to 1.79 from 1.82

Hispanic TFR down to 1.96 from 2.0

Asian TFR down to 1.53 from 1.6

[Nyvin]

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_13-508.pdf

2018 final data out, births down 1.7% to 3,791k.

Overall TFR down to 1.73 from 1.77

Non-Hispanic White TFR down to 1.64 from 1.67

Black TFR down to 1.79 from 1.82

Hispanic TFR down to 1.96 from 2.0

Asian TFR down to 1.53 from 1.6

All for the best probably.   We need a smaller population.

[Tender Branson]

From Jan.-Sept. 2019, births in Austria decreased by 2.3% and deaths decreased by 2.5%, which will be very similar to the trend in the US this year.

My state, Salzburg, is the only state with an increase in births (and deaths are down as well).

There were 37.800 marriages in the first 3 quarters, of which 860 were gay marriages (2.3%).

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[SingingAnalyst]

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr68/nvsr68_13-508.pdf

2018 final data out, births down 1.7% to 3,791k.

Overall TFR down to 1.73 from 1.77

Non-Hispanic White TFR down to 1.64 from 1.67

Black TFR down to 1.79 from 1.82

Hispanic TFR down to 1.96 from 2.0

Asian TFR down to 1.53 from 1.6

All for the best probably.   We need a smaller population.

Like straight men born in the 1960s and early 70s, straight boys in the US born after 2006 will have a harder time finding suitable mates.