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white born The number of births in the United States is falling again, and the total number of births nationwide has also declined.
Researchers said the number of white people born in the United States dropped from 52.6% in 2016 to 49.6% in 2024, falling below 50%. hofstra university new york announced on Friday.
Total number of live broadcasts nationwide throughout the year born There was also a decline over the same period, from 3.9 million to 3.6 million.
The findings mark what researchers call a “major demographic shift” and echo previous data The U.S. fertility rate is declining.
“These changes reflect declining fertility rates among most groups and contrast with immigration trends and the younger age of Hispanic women that have sustained overall birth rates.” The researchers wrote.
first drop
This is not the first time The white birth rate has fallen below the 50% mark – although the timeframe is different.
2012, census data Data show that babies born to white people account for 49.6% of the total number of babies born in the United States within one year.
Data shows the number of white births in the U.S. has continued to decline since the early 2000s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
New research shows Hispanic births increased from 23.5% to 27.4%, the only group to see growth.
The discovery marks a decades-long trend, according to the agency pew research centerdriven by immigration, age demographics and greater acceptance of interracial relationships.
Overall picture
These new findings add to national data showing birth rate fluctuations and declining fertility rates.
Fertility rate is the average number of children a person can expect to have in their lifetime. The fertility rate will fall by 1% from 2023 to 2024. record lowwhile the number of births that year increased by the same amount, according to the Bureau of Statistics CDC.
Dr. Amos Grunebaum, a professor at the Hofstra Zucker School of Medicine and one of the authors of the new study, wrote in an article that the number of births in the United States still exceeds the number of deaths, but the new data shows that the number of births has dropped by 8.4%. LinkedIn.
Grünebaum stressed that the U.S. health care system is “dangerously misaligned” with “today’s reality.”
“Now, the majority of American babies are delivered to Hispanic and black women, while facing the highest maternal mortality rates, while Medicaid — which funds more than 40 percent of births — faces proposed cuts that will devastate precisely these communities,” he said.
“Any politician who claims to be ‘pro-family’ while slashing insurance for mothers, who are truly building America’s future workforce, is not making policy — they are simply making choices about whose families matter more,” Grunebaum said.