Not only has the COVID-19 pandemic killed about 0.9% of Americans over age 65, but it has also caused a 4% drop in births between 2019 and 2020 to 3.6 million, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics.
That's the biggest drop since 1973 when fear of overpopulation led many U.S. mothers to give up on the idea of having more than two children.
The national numbers
The total number of babies born in the United States was 2% lower in the first half of 2020 than the first half of 2019. The number born in the second half fell to 1.8 million, down 6%, year over year.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, ThinkAdvisor's insurance editor, previously was LifeHealthPro's health insurance editor. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @Think_Allison.
