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The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may be

  • Written by Adrian Raftery, Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
The dip in the US birthrate isn't a crisis, but the fall in immigration may beReports of an American “baby bust” may be premature. But the drop in immigration puts the nation's demographic future at risk.Ariel Skelly/DigitalVision via Getty

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced in May 2021 that the nation’s total fertility rate had reached 1.64 children per woman in 2020, dropping 4%...

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