While the standard image of the nuclear family with two parents and 2.5 children has persisted in the American imagination, the number of births in the U.S. has steadily been decreasing since 1990, with about 3.6 million babies born in 2023. In 1990, this figure was 4.16 million. Birth and replacement rates A country’s birth rate is defined as the number of live births per 1,000 inhabitants, and it is this particularly important number that has been decreasing over the past few decades. The declining birth rate is not solely an American problem, with EU member states showing comparable rates to the U.S. Additionally, each country has what is called a “replacement rate.” The replacement rate is the rate of fertility needed to keep a population stable when compared with the death rate. In the U.S., the fertility rate needed to keep the population stable is around 2.1 children per woman, but this figure was at 1.67 in 2022. Falling birth rates Currently, there is much discussion as to what exactly is causing the birth rate to decrease in the United States. There seem to be several factors in play, including longer life expectancies, financial concerns (such as the economic crisis of 2008), and an increased focus on careers, all of which are causing people to wait longer to start a family. How international governments will handle falling populations remains to be seen, but what is clear is that the declining birth rate is a multifaceted problem without an easy solution.

Number and percentage of live births, by month of birth, 1991 to most recent year.

The graph illustrates the number of babies born in the United States from 1995 to 2025. The x-axis represents the years, labeled from '95 to '25, while the y-axis shows the annual number of births. Over this 30-year period, birth numbers peaked at 4,316,233 in 2007 and reached a low of 3,596,017 in 2023. The data reveals relatively stable birth rates from 1995 to 2010, with slight fluctuations, followed by a gradual decline starting around 2017. The information is presented in a line graph format, effectively highlighting the long-term downward trend in U.S. birth numbers over the specified timeframe.

Over the past 10 years, the highest number of babies born in Sweden was in 2016, when over 117,000 births occurred. In 2023, the number of new-born babies dropped to 100,000. Within the last decade, there were yearly more boys than girls born in the country.

Lowest fertility rate in a ten-year period

In Sweden, the fertility rate reached the lowest point in a ten-year period in 2022. The fertility rate is defined as the number of children that would be born or are likely to be born to a woman if she lives to the end of her reproductive years, and in 2022 it was down to 1.52 children per woman in Sweden. By comparison, the Faroe Islands had the highest fertility rate in Europe at 2.71.

Lowest crude rate of birth in thirteen years

As with the fertility rate, the crude birth rate in Sweden was at its lowest point for several years in 2022. It is defined as the number of live births in a given geographical area in a given time period, per thousand mid-year population, and it was down to 10 in 2022, which was the lowest number in the past decade.

This dataset contains counts of live births for California counties based on information entered on birth certificates. Final counts are derived from static data and include out of state births to California residents, whereas provisional counts are derived from incomplete and dynamic data. Provisional counts are based on the records available when the data was retrieved and may not represent all births that occurred during the time period.

The final data tables include both births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence) and births to California residents (by residence), whereas the provisional data table only includes births that occurred in California regardless of the place of residence (by occurrence). The data are reported as totals, as well as stratified by parent giving birth's age, parent giving birth's race-ethnicity, and birth place type. See temporal coverage for more information on which strata are available for which years.

In 2024, October ranked first as the period in which the most babies were born in Spain, with a total of approximately ****** births. On the other hand, April registered the lowest number of births, with a total of ****** newborns. Spain had an average fertility rate of **** children per woman in 2023, when Murcia and Melilla ranked as the regions of Spain with the highest birth rate.

Between 2010 and 2023, the number of births in Italy decreased constantly. In 2010, 550,000 births were registered in the country, while in 2022 the figure dropped to less than 400,000, with a forecast for 2023 of only around 380,000 new babies. The largest number of births nationwide was registered in the North Italian region of Lombardy, with approximately 58,900 infants born in 2021. Indeed, Lombardy is the most populous region of the country. Birth rates Data on birth rates in Italy reveal that Lombardy is only fifth in terms of infants born per 1,000 inhabitants. In 2023, Trentino-South Tyrol recorded the highest birth rate nationwide, with 7.9 newborns per 1,000 inhabitants. Three Southern regions followed in the ranking: Campania, Sicily, and Calabria. In fact, in 2023, the South was the macro-region with the largest birth rate in Italy. Aging population Due to the lower birth rates, the Italian population is aging fast. According to estimates for 2024, the average age in Italy is 46.6 years, 3.2 years older than in 2010. This figure is estimated to increase further in the upcoming years. Projections made in 2019 suggested that the median age will reach 50.8 years in 2030. Afterward, the average age of Italians might reach 53.6 years by 2050.

In 2024, around **** million babies were born in China. The number of births has increased slightly from **** million in the previous year, but is much lower than the ***** million births recorded in 2016. Demographic development in China In 2022, the Chinese population decreased for the first time in decades, and population decline is expected to accelerate in the upcoming years. To curb the negative effects of an aging population, the Chinese government decided in 2013 to gradually relax the so called one-child-policy, which had been in effect since 1979. From 2016 onwards, parents in China were allowed to have two children in general. However, as the recent figures of births per year reveal, this policy change had only short-term effects on the general birth rate: the number of births slightly increased from 2014 onwards, but then started to fell again in 2018. In 2024, China was the second most populous country in the world, overtaken by India that year. China’s aging population The Chinese society is aging rapidly and facing a serious demographic shift towards older age groups. The median age of China’s population has increased massively from about ** years in 1970 to **** years in 2020 and is projected to rise continuously until 2080. In 2020, approximately **** percent of the Chinese were 60 years and older, a figure that is forecast to rise as high as ** percent by 2060. This shift in demographic development will increase social and elderly support expenditure of the society as a whole. One measure for this social imbalance is the old-age dependency ratio, measuring the relationship between economic dependent older age groups and the working-age population. The old-age dependency ratio in China is expected to soar to ** percent in 2060, implying that by then three working-age persons will have to support two elderly persons.

US Births - How Common is Your Birthday?

How popular is your birthday?

By Andy Kriebel [source]

About this dataset

The file contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014. The data includes the following columns: year: The year of the observation. (Integer) month: The month of the observation. (Integer) date_of_month: The date of the observation. (Integer) day_of_week: The day of the week of the observation. (Integer) births: The number of births on the given day. (Integer)

How to use the dataset

The US Births dataset on Kaggle contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014. The data is broken down by year, month, date of month, day of week, and births.

This dataset can be used to answer questions about when people are born, how common certain birthdays are, and any trends over time. For example, you could use this dataset to find out which day of the week has the most births or which month has the most births

Research Ideas

• Determining which day of the year and what time of day that people are mostly born to help with staffing levels in maternity wards
• Identifying trends in baby names over time
• Predicting the number of births on a given day

Acknowledgements

This data set is a combined effort of the U.S. National Center for Health Statistics and the U.S. Social Security Administration, provided by FiveThirtyEight. It contains data on births in the United States from 1994 to 2014, with the following columns: year, month, date_of_month, day_of_week, births

->Thank you to FiveThirtyEight for providing this dataset!

Data Source

License

License: Dataset copyright by authors - You are free to: - Share - copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. - Adapt - remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. - You must: - Give appropriate credit - Provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. - ShareAlike - You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. - Keep intact - all notices that refer to this license, including copyright notices.

Columns

File: US_births_1994-2014.csv | Column name | Description | |:------------------|:---------------------------------------------| | year | Year of the data. (Integer) | | month | Month of the data. (Integer) | | date_of_month | Day of the month of the data. (Integer) | | day_of_week | Day of the week of the data. (Integer) | | births | Number of births on the given day. (Integer) |

Acknowledgements

If you use this dataset in your research, please credit Andy Kriebel.

The average for 2022 based on 195 countries was 18.38 births per 1000 people. The highest value was in Niger: 45.03 births per 1000 people and the lowest value was in Hong Kong: 4.4 births per 1000 people. The indicator is available from 1960 to 2022. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

The number of births in Africa amounted to around 46.1 million in 2023. The number of births on the continent grew annually from 2000 onwards. Moreover, it is projected to increase further to over 49 million by 2030.

This is a publication on maternity activity in English NHS hospitals. This report examines data relating to delivery and birth episodes in 2022-23, and the booking appointments for these deliveries. This annual publication covers the financial year ending March 2023. Data is included from both the Hospital Episodes Statistics (HES) data warehouse and the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). HES contains records of all admissions, appointments and attendances for patients admitted to NHS hospitals in England. The HES data used in this publication are called 'delivery episodes'. The MSDS collects records of each stage of the maternity service care pathway in NHS-funded maternity services, and includes information not recorded in HES. The MSDS is a maturing, national-level dataset. In April 2019 the MSDS transitioned to a new version of the dataset. This version, MSDS v2.0, is an update that introduced a new structure and content - including clinical terminology, in order to meet current clinical practice and incorporate new requirements. It is designed to meet requirements that resulted from the National Maternity Review, which led to the publication of the Better Births report in February 2016. This is the fourth publication of data from MSDS v2.0 and data from 2019-20 onwards is not directly comparable to data from previous years. This publication shows the number of HES delivery episodes during the period, with a number of breakdowns including by method of onset of labour, delivery method and place of delivery. It also shows the number of MSDS deliveries recorded during the period, with breakdowns including the baby's first feed type, birthweight, place of birth, and breastfeeding activity; and the mothers' ethnicity and age at booking. There is also data available in a separate file on breastfeeding at 6 to 8 weeks. The count of Total Babies includes both live and still births, and previous changes to how Total Babies and Total Deliveries were calculated means that comparisons between 2019-20 MSDS data and later years should be made with care. Information on how all measures are constructed can be found in the HES Metadata and MSDS Metadata files provided below. In this publication we have also included an interactive Power BI dashboard to enable users to explore key NHS Maternity Statistics measures. The purpose of this publication is to inform and support strategic and policy-led processes for the benefit of patient care. This report will also be of interest to researchers, journalists and members of the public interested in NHS hospital activity in England. Any feedback on this publication or dashboard can be provided to enquiries@nhsdigital.nhs.uk, under the subject “NHS Maternity Statistics”.

The dateset is a daily birth count for a tertiary hospital from Nepal. The data contains information about number of births by day and relented maternal and child health characteristicts.

Births that occurred by hospital name. Birth events of 5 or more per hospital location are displayed

Connecticut's Birth to Three System (B23) supports families with infants and toddlers that have developmental delays to learn new ways to make everyday activities enhance the child's development. Birth to Three is administered pursuant to Part C of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Once families with children below age 3 are referred, the child's development is evaluated for eligibility, and if eligible the family can receive supports until the child no longer has delays or until the child turns age 3. Because an infant can be referred within days of being born, a family may be enrolled for almost three full years. Connecticut's Birth to Three System publishes data annually by the fiscal and calendar year and longitudinally by birth cohort. CTData.org carries both sets of data, here and in 'Birth To Three Annual Data'. Birth cohort data looks at all children born in a particular year and tracks whether the family received B23 support. For example, the latest full year available in this dataset is for those children born in 2013 since they turned age 3 sometime in 2016. The 2013 data will tell you how many children there were whose families received support at some point during the first three years of the child's life. CTData calculates several indicators using total number of births in a town. This provides users with a general idea of the relative number of children in the community eligible for services. Using births is not perfect since families move in and out of town so it should not be used as an exact figure but as a general reference point. Below are how the indicators are calculated: % Referrals = Number referred divided by total number of births % Evaluations = Number evaluated divided by total number of births % Eligible = Number eligible divided by total number of births % Individual Family Service Plans (IFSP) = Number with IFSP divided by total number of births % Served = Number served divided by total number of births % Exited to Early Childhood Special Education = Number exited to early childhood special education divided by total number of births 'Referred that are Evaluated' represents the percent of children that were evaluated out of the total number of children referred to the Birth to Three System. 'Evaluated that are Eligible' represents the percent of children who were deemed eligible out of the total number of children that were evaluated. 'Eligible that Recieve IFSP' represents the percent of children whose family recieved an Individual Family Service Plan out of the total number of eligible children.

In 2023, about 3.66 million babies were born in the European Union, a slight decrease from the year before. In the same year, the most children born in any EU country were born in Germany. Live births are the births of children excluding stillbirths; a key figure that can provide insight to demographic analyses, such as population growth. Population growth in EuropeEurope is the continent with the second-highest life expectancy at birth and has favorable living conditions due to factors such as a stable economy, and a high quality of public health and medical care. The European Union’s population has remained securely around 450 million inhabitants, though it has been increasing slowly from 2008 to 2023.

This table counts all births (live and still) which occurred in Welsh units. It does not include home or ambulance births but does include births to non-Welsh residents which took place in Wales. The National Community Child Health Database consists of anonymised records for all children born, resident or treated in Wales and born after 1987. The database combines data from local Community Child Health System databases which are held by local health boards. From 1st April 2019 health service provision for residents of Bridgend local authority moved from Abertawe Bro Morgannwg to Cwm Taf. For more information see the joint statement from Cwm Taf and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Boards (see weblinks). The health board names have changed with Cwm Taf University Health Board becoming Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board and Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board becoming Swansea Bay University Health Board. Data for Abertawe Bro Morgannwg and Cwm Taf are available for previous years in this table by selecting the tick boxes in the Area drop-down box.

This statistical release makes available the most recent monthly data on NHS-funded maternity services in England, using data submitted to the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS). This is the latest report from the newest version of the data set, MSDS.v.2, which has been in place since April 2019. The new data set was a significant change which added support for key policy initiatives such as continuity of carer, as well as increased flexibility through the introduction of new clinical coding. This was a major change, so data quality and coverage initially reduced from the levels seen in earlier publications. MSDS.v.2 data completeness improved over time, and we are looking at ways of supporting further improvements. This publication also includes the National Maternity Dashboard, which can be accessed via the link below. Data derived from SNOMED codes is used in some measures such as those for birthweight, and others will follow in later publications. SNOMED data is also included in some of the published Clinical Quality Improvement Metrics (CQIMs), where rules have been applied to ensure measure rates are calculated only where data quality is high enough. System suppliers are at different stages of development and delivery to trusts. In some cases, this has limited the aspects of data that can be submitted in the MSDS. This month, for the first time, this publication contains a new Clinical Quality Improvement Metric (CQIM) called CQIMReadmissions. This new metric reports the number of babies born in hospital then discharged home, who were then readmitted to hospital while still under 30 days old. This is supported by five new data quality metrics to ensure we only publish CQIMReadmissions figures where the underlying data is of sufficient completeness and quality. The new data quality metrics are CQIMDQ46 to CQIMDQ50. Further information about this new readmissions metric can found in this publication’s Data Quality Statement. This new data can be found in the Measures file available for download and in the CQIM and CQIM+ pages in the National Maternity Dashboard, and further information on the new metrics can be found in the accompanying Metadata file. To help Trusts understand to what extent they met the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) Maternity Incentive Scheme (MIS) Data Quality Criteria for Safety Action 2, we have been producing a CNST Scorecard Dashboard showing trust performance against this criteria. This dashboard has been updated following the release of CNST Y6 criteria, and can be accessed via the link below. The percentages presented in this report are based on rounded figures and therefore may not total to 100%.

This dataset shows those born in the Canton of Basel-Stadt by gender, nationality, residential district and date of birth. The data will be updated daily, taking into account only births that date back at least 15 days. Due to subsequent notifications, changes to already published values can occur at any time. In the data of the current year and until about July also in those of the previous year, except for the liveborns, the stillborns are also taken into account, because the indication of viability is only available in July of the following year. In recent years, only liveborns are taken into account. The number of children born together (multiple births) is also only available in July of the following year. For methodological reasons, the values published here may differ from those in cantonal public statistics: In the latter, post-reported births are collected for four months, after which the figures are considered definitive. Reports received later will be counted in the last month not yet completed. In this record, they are counted in the month of the date of birth.For reasons of privacy, more attributes can be published in the monthly record than in the present dataset. This dataset shows those born in the Canton of Basel-Stadt by gender, nationality, residential district and date of birth. The data will be updated daily, taking into account only births that date back at least 15 days. Due to subsequent notifications, changes to already published values can occur at any time. In the data of the current year and until about July also in those of the previous year, except for the liveborns, the stillborns are also taken into account, because the indication of viability is only available in July of the following year. In recent years, only liveborns are taken into account. The number of children born together (multiple births) is also only available in July of the following year. For methodological reasons, the values published here may differ from those in cantonal public statistics: In the latter, post-reported births are collected for four months, after which the figures are considered definitive. Reports received later will be counted in the last month not yet completed. In this record, they are counted in the month of the date of birth.For reasons of privacy, more attributes can be published in the monthly record than in the present dataset.

Vital Statistics: Birth Rate: per 1000 Population: Gujarat data was reported at 19.300 NA in 2020. This records a decrease from the previous number of 19.500 NA for 2019. Vital Statistics: Birth Rate: per 1000 Population: Gujarat data is updated yearly, averaging 22.300 NA from Dec 1997 (Median) to 2020, with 23 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 25.500 NA in 1998 and a record low of 19.300 NA in 2020. Vital Statistics: Birth Rate: per 1000 Population: Gujarat data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Office of the Registrar General & Census Commissioner, India. The data is categorized under India Premium Database’s Demographic – Table IN.GAH002: Vital Statistics: Birth Rate: by States.