In 1957, 4.3 million babies were born in the United States — 4,316,233, to be exact. In 2017, 60 years later, the number was 3,853,472. That’s an 11 percent decline, in a nation whose population has nearly doubled over those six decades. And although there are a few days left in 2018, the number for this year is sure to be lower still.
That’s the dominant finding from a thorough and alarming American Enterprise Institute report on “Declining Fertility in America” by Lyman Stone of the Institute for Family Studies.
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