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US fertility rate dips over 4% from 2020, reaching another record low

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US fertility rate dips over 4% from 2020, reaching another record low

The fertility rate in the United States dipped 4.3% from 2020, reaching another record low for the nation.

In 2019, the rate was 58.3 per 1,000 women but decreased to 55.8 per 1,000 women in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to provisional data from the National Center for Health Statistics.

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