In the last couple of years, America has faced some big turnarounds and one of them is that the birth rates had increasingly lowered. For decades, economists and demographic experts anticipated a massive post-recession "baby boom" that never quite arrived. Instead, the United States is navigating a structural "baby bust."According to the latest provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US birth rate decline has reached another historic milestone. The general fertility rate has plummeted to 53.1 births per 1,000 women, with total annual births hovering around 3.6 million—a steep drop from
the 3.85 million births seen less than a decade ago.
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