The fertility rate in the U.S. was on a constant decline between 2014 and 2020 and has fluctuated since then, CDC reports.

Families are smaller and people are waiting longer to have children than in years past, according to an NBC News analysis ... The U.S. birth rate — the number of births per 1,000 women ...

However, in 2021, adjusted maternal death rates peaked at 18.86 per 100,000 live births, in line with the COVID pandemic. Of note, both infant and fetal death rates per 1,000 live births declined ...

There were about 3.6 million babies born in 2023, or 54.4 live births for ... The teen birth rate reached another record low of 13.2 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, which is 79% lower ...

Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still ...

Only Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont — the latter being the lowest in the nation at 8.2 births per 1,000 ... rates have long been among the nation’s lowest. The continued decline is in line ...

the admission rate to an intensive care unit (ICU) was 1.8 per 1,000 live births, according to a December data brief published by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National ...

South Dakota tops the list as the state with the highest fertility rate at 65.64 live births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, and Vermont rounds out the list as the state with the lowest fertility ...

The infant mortality rate is usually expressed as the ratio of infant deaths per one thousand live births. Prior to 1900 ... a long slide from 165 per 1,000 in 1900 to 7 per 1,000 in 1997.

Michigan’s southeast-most county had a rate of 14.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, which was the highest rate among the state’s 83 counties, according to the latest provisional data from ...