The number of births in the United States increased in 2021 for the first time since 2014, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The CDC’s National Vital Statistics System compiled the data using collected birth records received and processed by the National Center for Health Statistics for 2021 as of early February 2022.
Births increased for women above age 25, most markedly in women 35-39, who saw an increase of 5% from 2020. But women under 25 saw an overall 2% decrease in births from 2020, a record low for this age group. Premature births also jumped 4% in 2021 to nearly 10.5%, the highest rate reported since 2007. The CDC did not put forward a reason for the increase in preterm births, but older pregnant women are more likely than their younger counterparts to give birth at less than 37 weeks gestation. COVID-19 infection, however mild, has also beenBirthrates had been on the decline even before the pandemic began over two years ago, but it is believed that COVID-19 exacerbated the downward trend.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic likely had a similar effect on family planning. Birthrate data going back to late 2020 suggests that women delayed pregnancy out of concern for the public health emergency. In December 2020, the month when babies conceived at the beginning of the pandemic would have been born, the birthrate had declined 8% from the previous year.
"That sort of suggests [that] when we saw the decline in births from 2019 to 2020, probably a lot of births were postponed," Dr. Brady Hamilton, who is the lead author of the report and works with the NCHS Division of Vital Statistics,
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