For over a century, the fertility rate in the United States has reflected sweeping demographic and societal changes.
This dataset, visualized by USAFacts using data from the CDC, captures the trend from 1909 through 2023.
The data shows the U.S. general fertility rate peaked in 1957 at 122.9 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44.
Worse than that, the wrong ones continue to breed!
This whole article is about birth rates, not fertility rates. A woman can be fertile but not give birth. Well, maybe not in Tennessee …