Fertility rates hit a record low in the United States in 2025, according to newly released provisional data.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers said in a report released on April 9 they reviewed 99.95 percent of all 2025 birth records received by the agency as of Feb. 3 of this year and determined that the fertility rate for 2025 was 53.1 births per 1,000 females aged 15 to 44.
That was down 1 percent from 2024, a 23 percent drop since the recent peak in 2007, and the lowest rate on record.
In 2025, just 3.60 million births were recorded, down 1 percent from the 3.62 million births 2024.
The peak number of births was 4.3 million in 2007.
The number of births was published earlier this year, but CDC researchers had not yet calculated the fertility rates….