Total Fertility Rate (births per woman) un US: 2015 | 1.83 2016 | 1.80 2017 | 1.... | Hacker News

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t0bia_s 5 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The US is flirting with its first-ever population ...

Total Fertility Rate (births per woman) un US:

2015 | 1.83

2016 | 1.80

2017 | 1.75

2018 | 1.71

2019 | 1.68

2020 | 1.62

2021 | 1.63

2022 | 1.67

2023 | 1.62

2024 | 1.62

2025 | 1.62

2026 | 1.61

Politizacion of long term trend wont help here.

hinkley 5 months ago [–]

And yet, birthrates jacked up for 2 decades after communism collapsed, stayed high until the bank crisis, tanked both times Trump came into office, recovered a couple years into Covid.

t0bia_s 5 months ago | [–]

Meanwhile in Niger, fertility rate per woman is 6.3. It's not about politics.

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