Fertility rates picked up slightly in 2021, ending a sustained decline since 2014, the U.S. government said. Rising fertility rates have not changed the overall demographic picture of the United States. Since 2007, the U.S. fertility rate has largely plummeted. While there has been an uptick in 2021, it remains below 2019 levels. More and more American parents are choosing to have only one child. The data showed that 3,659,289 children were born in the U.S. last year, up 46,000 or 1 percent from 2020. Fertility rates in the U.S. plummeted during the 2020 pandemic lockdown. But with the drop in unemployment and the distribution of pandemic subsidies, fertility has picked up. But not everyone is confident about getting pregnant during the pandemic: Fertility rates for white and Hispanic women rose by 2 percent, and birth rates for black, Asian and Indigenous women fell by 2 to 3 percent.
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