(CNSNews.com) - The birth rate in the United States hit an all-time low in 2011, according to a report released this month by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“The 2011 preliminary number of U.S. births was 3,953,593, 1 percent
less (or 45,793 fewer) births than in 2010; the general fertility rate
(63.3 per 1,000 women age 15-44 years) declined to the lowest rate ever
reported for the United States,” said the report.
More than 40 percent of all babies born in the country last year, the report said, were born to unmarried women.-[Full Article]
