CDC: U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low; 40.7% of Babies Born to Unmarried Women

Terence P. Jeffrey
cnsnews.com
November 1, 2012

The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate (63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever reported for the United States,” said the report.

More than 40 percent of all babies born in the country last year, the report said, were born to unmarried women.

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This article was posted: Thursday, November 1, 2012 at 1:06 pm

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