The number of births declined in the U.S. in 2021 and the COVID-19 pandemic played a role, according to a new report published by the CDC.
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"The last two or so years have kind of been unparalleled" when it comes to declines in births, Dr. Brady Hamilton, a statistician at the NCHS and co-author of the report, told ABC News."Certainly the thing that caught our eye -- and we already saw a hint when we looked at the data for 2020 compared to 2019 -- there was an extremely sharp decline in the number of births in January of 2021 compared to January of 2020."Births in the U.S.
The report also found that the number of births declined for all races and ethnicities in the first half of 2021. The biggest drops were seen in New Mexico and Washington, D.C., with a 5% and 9% decrease, respectively.
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