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.

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.

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

U.S. Births

This folder contains data behind the story Some People Are Too Superstitious To Have A Baby On Friday The 13th.

There are two files:

US_births_1994-2003_CDC_NCHS.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 1994 to 2003, as provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.

US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv contains U.S. births data for the years 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.

Both files have the following structure:

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 the United States, the crude birth rate in 1800 was 48.3 live births per thousand people, meaning that 4.8 percent of the population had been born in that year. Between 1815 and 1825 the crude birth rate jumped from 46.5 to 54.7 (possibly due to Florida becoming a part of the US, but this is unclear), but from this point until the Second World War the crude birth rate dropped gradually, reaching 19.2 in 1935. Through the 1940s, 50s and 60s the US experienced it's baby boom, and the birth rate reached 24.1 in 1955, before dropping again until 1980. From the 1980s until today the birth rate's decline has slowed, and is expected to reach twelve in 2020, meaning that just over 1 percent of the population will be born in 2020.

Niger had the highest birth rate in the world in 2024, with a birth rate of 46.6 births per 1,000 inhabitants. Angola, Benin, Mali, and Uganda followed. Except for Afghanistan, all 20 countries with the highest birth rates in the world were located in Sub-Saharan Africa. High infant mortality The reasons behind the high birth rates in many Sub-Saharan African countries are manyfold, but a major reason is that infant mortality remains high on the continent, despite decreasing steadily over the past decades, resulting in high birth rates to counter death rates. Moreover, many nations in Sub-Saharan Africa are highly reliant on small-scale farming, meaning that more hands are of importance. Additionally, polygamy is not uncommon in the region, and having many children is often seen as a symbol of status. Fastest-growing populations As the high fertility rates coincide with decreasing death rates, countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have the highest population growth rates in the world. As a result, Africa's population is forecast to increase from 1.4 billion in 2022 to over 3.9 billion by 2100.

The average for 2022 based on 196 countries was 18.19 births per 1000 people. The highest value was in the Central African Republic: 45.42 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 2023. Below is a chart for all countries where data are available.

CDC Births Data

This data is drawn from the USA Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and was compiled via Google's BigQuery Web UI using the following query:

SELECT
 year, month, day,
 IF (is_male, 'M', 'F') AS gender,
 SUM(record_weight) as births
FROM
 [publicdata:samples.natality]
GROUP BY
 year, month, day, gender
ORDER BY
 year, month, day, gender

It is aggregated so as to comply with their terms of use. Data was accessed June 9th, 2015.

Note that this data has been fairly extensively analyzed by Andrew Gelman and his group; see e.g. this post.

Acknowledgements

Dataset extraction work and availability on github by Jake Vanderplas

In 2021, around 373,594 babies were born while 267,651 people died in the state of Texas in the United States. In comparison, there were 34,333 deaths and 35,670 babies born in Connecticut in that same year.

"This CD-ROM contains tables and other pertinent documents for Vital Statistics of the United States, 2002, Volume I, Natality. The collection provides information on live births in the United States during calendar year 2002. Some tables include information for 2002 as well as years prior to 2002. Data are presented in table format and include live births, birthrates, and fertility rates by several variables including geographic area; mother's age, race, education, marital status, and Hispan ic origin; father's age, race, and Hispanic origin; child's race; Apgar score; birthweight; live-birth order; parity; place of delivery and attendant; plurality; prenatal care; day of birth, and resident status. Births to nonresidents of the US are excluded from all tabulations by place of residence. Births occurring to US citizens outside of the US are not included. Geographic variables describing residence for births include state, county, city, standard metropolitan statistical area (SMSA), urban places, and the United States or all reporting areas. The birth and fertility rates contained in Vital Statistics of the United States, 2002, Volume I, Natality, may differ from rates contained in previously published reports in the series. Those rates were based on postcensal population estimates consistent with the 1990 census, whereas rates in this report for 1991-1999 are based on intercensal estimates. In addition, Tables 1-30 through 1-37 published in earlier years (which contain cohort-fertility rates) are currently being revised to incorporate the 2000 postcensal estimates and are not available at this time."Note to Users: This CD is part of a collection located in the Data Archive at the Odum Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The collection is located in Room 10, Manning Hall. Users may check out the CDs, subscribing to the honor system. Items may be checked out for a period of two weeks. Loan forms are located adjacent to the collection.

Dataset

This dataset was created by Doug Cresswell

Released under GPL 2

Contents

This dataset includes all births for a given year and includes all items released in the public-use file. Additional information in this file includes state and county of residence (cities with a population of 100,000 or greater) and exact date of birth (which includes day of month, month, and year).

A datasets that contains births across the united states per state. The goal is to try and find interesting patterns in the data.

Variables

• state The US state somebody was born in.
• year The year.
• month The month.
• day The day of the month.
• date The date.
• wday The day of the week.
• births The number of people born.

Acknowlegement

Foto von Adi Goldstein auf Unsplash

This dataset contains a single very long daily time series representing the number of births in US from 01/01/1969 to 31/12/1988. It was extracted from R mosaicData package. The length of this time series is 7305.

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.

US_births_2000-2014_SSA.csv` contains U.S. births data for the years 2000 to 2014, as provided by the Social Security Administration.

Details:

Data was obtained from the CDC WONDER database.

Day is set to 1 to create Date, data is monthly total births and deaths for each state.

Context

Births in U.S during 1994 to 2003.

Content

The data set has the following structure:

• year - Year

• month - Month

• date_of_month - Day number of the month

• day_of_week - Day of week, where 1 is Monday and 7 is Sunday

• births - Number of births

Acknowledgements

Data set from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National National Center for Health Statistics

Inspiration

Make a dictionary that shows total number of births on each day of week?

Graph and download economic data for Single-Parent Households with Children as a Percentage of Households with Children (5-year estimate) in Day County, SD (S1101SPHOUSE046037) from 2009 to 2023 about Day County, SD; single-parent; SD; households; 5-year; and USA.