Experts have a good guess about why.
altogether — during the first year of the pandemic due to financial strain and public health concerns.
"That sort of suggests [that] when we saw the decline in births from 2019 to 2020, probably a lot of births were postponed," Hamilton told ABC News. The report also showed an increase in the fertility rate, aka the number of live births per 1,000 pregnancies — in women between the ages of 15 and 44. This number went up to 56.6 in 2021 from 56 in 2020, and is the first increase since 2014, according to the report.
This number is considered low to experts concerned about the replacement level, or the level a population needs to replace itself, which is 2,100 births per 1,000 women.
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