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Birth Rates Last Year Still Below Replacement Level, CDC Says

Birth Rates Last Year Still Below Replacement Level, CDC Says
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Bill Pan
Bill Pan
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6/5/2023|Updated: 6/6/2023
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American women are still having too few babies to replace themselves and their partners, the latest national birth data suggests.

In what the U.S Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) described as a “nonsignificant decline,” the nation recorded 3,661,220 new babies in 2022, just a few thousand less than the year before.

Bill Pan
Bill Pan
Reporter
Bill Pan is an Epoch Times reporter covering education issues and New York news.
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