A few years ago, America had a tiny blip upwards in the number of babies that were born, and it was a glimmer of hope:
Unfortunately, it was apparently a statistical blip. From CNN:
The fertility rate in the United States has been trending down for decades, and a new report shows that another drop in births in 2023 brought the rate down to the lowest it's been in more than a century.
There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for every 1,000 females ages 15 to 44, according to provisional data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.
That new low "brought the rate just below the previous low from 2020, which was 56 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age."
(The U.S. government has tracked the fertility rate since the 1930s.)
Here are a few charts from The Wall Street Journal's story to visualize the decline:
The Journal notes:
The number of births last year was the lowest since 1979, according to provisional data. About 3.59 million children were born in the U.S. in 2023, a 2% drop compared with 3.66 million in 2022.
So how to fix this? Well, the quickest and easiest solution is obviously:
But beyond that? Well, the best and brightest minds among us think we should import a ton of people from other countries in order to keep our civilization afloat:
In Japan, meanwhile, they're experiencing the endgame of decades of rock-bottom fertility:
Not pleasant.
As Elon is fond of saying, make more babies or don't have human civilization: Those are our choices!
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