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    [OC] U.S. Total Fertility Rate by State 2007 vs 2025

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    2. MapsYouDidntAskFor on

      When putting them together did all states count equally or did you weight by population?

    3. ArkansasWastelander on

      Arkansas here. Just chiming in to say that Alabama’s fertility rate went down because it became harder to organize family reunions post-COVID.

    6. Special_Command7893 on

      Oh noooooo
      How teRribLe

      I mean, for starters, who would’ve guessed that higher cost of living discourages people from having kids?

    9. princemark on

      I find the plummeting birth rate FASCINATING.

      This is one of those slow moving car wrecks that are playing out over decades.

      FWIW, I couldn’t care less about elderly care. People should take care of themselves, in their 20-60s, to have a better retirement.

    10. Wesus on

      compare the cost of living and wage increases over the same time frame and it will become obvious why

    13. Usual_Set4665 on

      It’s gonna be too expensive to have babies until we start regulating this atrocious wealth inequality.

    16. Atomicsss- on

      That’s why i don’t think feminism is the sole reason birth rates are dropping.

      Was US signifiantly less feminist in 2007 than 2025? No, the difference is dismissable. In fact, with Roe overturned, you may think birth rates would go up. However, that’s not the case.

    18. Bob_Sconce on

      Long-term, that’s a really big problem.  The national debt is predicated on the idea that the economy will grow indefinitely into the future.  Our system of taking care of retirees is based on the idea that there will always be more workers than retirees.  

      The saving grace in all of this is that the US has had enough net inbound immigration of young people to offset the decline in native births.  Well, at least we did until the xenophobes won the White House.

    19. Dajoka88 on

      Everyone providing answers that suit their world view. The real answer is the decline in teenage pregnancy!! This trend is a good one

    21. ilcasdy on

      Birth rates have little to do with politics and more to do with the development level of the nation. More developed nations have lower birth rates.

      People with less wealth tend to have more kids, not less. This plays out consistently all over the world.

      This was predicted decades ago. This is also why even Republicans who are “anti-immigration” will always allow more immigrants.

    22. Colonel_Gipper on

      I’m 34 and it makes sense with what I’ve seen in my friend group, most people are childless, 1 kid or 2 kids and done. I only know one couple with 3 and that was due to twins for their second pregnancy.

    26. rimshot99 on

      Americans better jack up immigration to make up the difference. Need some sort of taskforce -you could call it Newcomer Integration & Citizenship Engagement.

    27. I_Have_A_Big_Head on

      The colors are nice to look at but it took me a while to figure out the proper orientation. You have two years on either end of a long bar, which makes it looks more like a timeline than a color scale. I think putting those beneath the map would look better. Saves the redundancy with the circle as well. But this is for sure very useful info!

    28. themiro on

      This is why we need to stop spending so much money on the richest, elderly generation via social security and medicare and start spending far more supporting young families with child-tax credits, etc.

    30. SunshineFlourish on

      I could potentially see a correlation here with more democrat-aligned states having more standards for sex ed and availability of contraceptives/abortions leading to less fertility rate. Not saying it’s bad, I would argue that it’s good actually. Also I could see a potential correlation with the states that currently have higher fertility rates, yes being more republican-aligned states, but also the ones that have a larger land mass to population ratio. I also wouldn’t be surprised to find higher rates of religiosity in those higher fertility rate states.

    32. Upbeat_Confidence739 on

      Oh wow. Utah leading the pack in child births…. What a shocker said no one who knows Mormons.

    33. NebulousNitrate on

      Well on the plus sides our kids probably won’t have to worry about the insane house prices continuing. 20 years down the road that’s a lot of baby boomers dead and lots of houses looking for new owners.

    35. Suspicious-Kiwi816 on

      Lower teenage pregnancy – probably a combination of reasons like accessibility of birth control, less young people in relationships, and lower alcohol consumption.

      So many people I know approaching 40 though don’t have kids too though, have been in relationships for many many years, and don’t want kids really just cause they think life is good without them and don’t think they’d be happier with kids. Less societal pressure probably since it’s more common.

    36. enfuego138 on

      If only there was some way to bring people in from outside the country to stem the tide of population loss…