US Births fall 4% in 2020 Down 142,000

[DINGO Joe]

Fell across every state, demo and age group.  Really can't blame it on the pandemic as only some December births could have been impacted.  When combined with a 530,000 increase in deaths, natural growth fell to 220,000 from 890,000 in 2019 and 1.5 million in 2010

In 2018, four states had more deaths than births WV, VT, NH and ME.  The map for 2020 looks like this

Blue=more deaths than births

Births

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/vsrr/vsrr012-508.pdf

Deaths

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

[DINGO Joe]

Did virus exposure cause miscarriages? Each year sets a new record for low birth rates, but if the decline this year was particularly sharp that could be a cause.

I haven't heard any discussion of such, anecdotal or otherwise.

[DINGO Joe]

So what percentage of US population growth in 2020 came directly from immigration? I might be misreading the numbers at a cursory glance, but it seems like ~80%?

I dunno, what were the immigration numbers for 2020?

[DINGO Joe]

I'm surprised it fell only 4%

Early reports suggest that 2021 could drop double digits

[DINGO Joe]

Kind of surprised much of the South recorded natural declines while the Plains states recorded natural growth.

Well retirees have a long history of moving south to retire and boomers are the biggest generation so it shouldn't be a big shock.  Think of Florida as being a big elephant graveyard.