Obama’s Depressing Economy: More Death, Fewer Births, Less Life
by JOHN HAYWARD
BreitBart.com
3 Jun 2016
In a melancholy companion piece to the announcement that America’s mortality rate is rising, the Wall Street Journal reports that fewer Americans in 2015 gave birth to new life.
Preliminary numbers out Thursday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show there were 3.98 million births in the U.S. in 2015. That is down 0.3% from 2014 and reverses a one-year rebound when the number of births rose slightly.
The data showed a sharp drop in births among teens, which fell 8% to their lowest level since the government began tracking them decades ago. Women ages 15 to 19 notched a birthrate of 22.3 births per 1,000 women. That is down 64% since its most recent peak in 1991, with most of the decline happening in the past eight years. “That is very atypical,” said Brady Hamilton, a statistician at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
What is expected to worry some demographers is that the total number of U.S. births was lower than they projected, affirming concerns the country is struggling to recover from a childbearing slowdown sparked by the start of the recession in 2007.
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