US birth rate held steady in 2022 below pre-COVID levels, women having babies at older age: CDC
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The CDC says the U.S. birth rate remained steady in 2022, as fertility stays below the rate that is needed for a generation to replace itself.
Births to moms 35 and older also continued to rise last year, with the highest rates in that age group since the 1960s, the CDC found. Danielle Wallace is a reporter for Fox News Digital covering politics, crime, police and more. Story tips can be sent to danielle.wallace@fox.com and on Twitter: @danimwallace.
A little under 3.7 million babies were born in the U.S. last year, about 3,000 fewer than the year before. Because the numbers are provisional, and the change was small, officials consider births to have been "kind of level from the previous year," the CDC’s Brady Hamilton, the lead author of the report, said.
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