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A person is born approximately every 8.08 seconds. Number of people born per year: 3,900,750. Number of people born per day: 10,687. Number of people born per hour: 445. Source: United Nations World Population Prospects 2019. Births by State
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In the United States, State laws require birth certificates to be completed for all births, and Federal law mandates national collection and publication of births and other vital statistics data. The National Vital Statistics System, the Federal compilation of this data, is the result of the cooperation between the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the States to provide access to statistical information from birth certificates.
Standard forms for the collection of the data and model procedures for the uniform registration of the events are developed and recommended for State use through cooperative activities of the States and NCHS. Material is available to assist persons in completing the death certificate. NCHS shares the costs incurred by the States in providing vital statistics data for national use.
Data for United States in 2021
•Number of births: 3,664,292
•Birth rate: 11.0 per 1,000 population
•Fertility rate: 56.3 births per 1000 women aged 15-44 years
•Prenatal care initiated in the 1st trimester: 78.3%
•Percent born preterm (less than 37 completed weeks of gestation): 10.49%
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•Applying Best Practices for Reporting Medical and Health Information on Birth Certificates
Instructional Materials
•Guide to Completing the Facility Worksheets for the Certificate of Live Birth and Report of Fetal Death
Results—The provisional number of births for the United States in 2022 was 3,661,220, a nonsignificant decline from 2021. The general fertility rate was 56.1 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, down less than 1% from 2021. The total fertility rate was 1,665.0 births per 1,000 women in 2022, essentially unchanged from 2021.
Chart and table of the U.S. birth rate from 1950 to 2024. United Nations projections are also included through the year 2100. The current birth rate for U.S. in 2024 is 12.009 births per 1000 people, a 0.12% decline from 2023. The birth rate for U.S. in 2023 was 12.023 births per 1000 people, a 0.09% increase from 2022.
Percent born low birthweight: 8.60%; Percent born preterm: 10.38%; Percent unmarried: 39.8%; Mean age at first birth: 27.4; Source: Births: Final Data for 2022, tables 1, 9, 11, and 13 [PDF – 1 MB]
The number of births in the United States was essentially unchanged from 2021 to 2022, following a rise of 1% from 2020 to 2021. The general fertility rate declined 1% in 2022 to 56.0 births per 1,000 females aged 15–44, following an increase of 1% from 2020 to 2021.
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