Read about a report from the CDC, which looks at the birth rates from 2019 and found that they continued to decline for the fifth year in a row.
Less drastically on the decline, the report stated, are c-sections, which decreased from 31.9 percent in 2018 to 31.7 percent in 2019. Preterm births, on the other hand, rose for the fifth year in a row to 10.23 percent in 2019 .
This is the highest level reported in over a decade, theOf course the report only factors in data from 2019, but with COVID-19 kicking off the start of 2020, many experts believe birth rates will only continue to decline. The true impact of the pandemic on American birth rates and the makeup of families likely won’t be fully uncovered for the next few years.
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