The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be
- Written by: Adrian Raftery, Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
Reports of an American “baby bust” may be premature. But the drop in immigration puts the nation's demographic future at risk.Ariel Skelly/DigitalVision via GettyThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in May 2021 that the nation’s total fertility rate had reached 1.64 children per woman in 2020, dropping 4%...
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