The Capacity of Americans to Produce Babies Crashed to a Record Low in 2025
. . .Just in time for Mother’s Day, the CDC has published a report showing the total US fertility rate falling below 1.6 births per woman of reproductive age.
That’s a 1% decline from 2024 and a 23% drop since 2007 — and far below the 2.1 births per woman needed just to keep our population stable.
As with so many other aspects of contemporary life, we seem to have offshored the manufacture of human beings.
There should be nothing startling or unusual about this trend. It’s in line with the expressed opinions of large swaths of the great American public.
According to a 2024 poll, the share of American adults under 50 who have sworn off the messy business of reproduction increased from 37% in 2018 to 47% in 2023.
In an even more remarkable finding, only 48% of Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 think raising a family is a particularly important life goal. (Read more from “The Capacity of Americans to Produce Babies Crashed to a Record Low in 2025” HERE)
