The Total Fertility Rate (TFR), the average number of children per woman, in the country has remained constant at 2.0 in 2021, the same as the year 2020, according to the Sample Registration ...

Age-Specific Fertility Rate, and Total Fertility Rate, among other indicators. Crude Birth Rate measures number of live births per 1,000 people in the population, and General Fertility Rate ...

The total fertility rate was around 1.63 births per woman in 2024, slightly higher than a record-low rate recorded in 2023 but far below the rate needed for a generation to replace itself.

Birth rates have fluctuated through 2024, the CDC reported. Other data from the study focuses on fertility rate, or the number of live births per woman at reproductive age (15 through 44).

The fertility rate last year – 54.6 births for every 1,000 women of reproductive age – increased less than 1% from the record low in 2023, hovering well below rates from years earlier.The U.S ...

The report also estimated the birth rate among women ages 15 to 44, referred to more specifically as the fertility rate. The rate declined from 2014 to 2020, then fluctuated through 2024.

This marks a 3 percent decline from 2022 and continues a long-term downward trend. Another key metric, the total fertility rate, estimates the average number of children a woman will have over her ...