Few births 2017

European countries, plus some Asian countries like Japan and Singapore, have had fewer and fewer births over the years to the point that their native peoples cannot replace themselves. To simply replace its numbers, a society must average 2.1 births per woman.

America has finally joined the birth dearth. In 2017 America averaged just 1.8 births per woman. (That's the lowest average since 1978.) Total births were 92,000 less than 2016.

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