{"id":1282736,"date":"2022-02-08T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-08T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282736"},"modified":"2022-02-08T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-08T22:52:41","slug":"report-pandemic-caused-smaller-baby-bust-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-pandemic-caused-smaller-baby-bust-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Pandemic Caused Smaller \u2018Baby Bust\u2019 Than Expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freport-pandemic-caused-smaller-baby-bust-than-expected%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1282736&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/DDC6B445-E266-4559-8448-067434CC78C6_1_201_a-1.jpeg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Provisional data on the number of births in the United States showed that the COVID-19 pandemic might have had less of an impact on a \u201cbaby bust\u201d than was originally anticipated.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Wall Street Journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-19-pandemic-led-to-smaller-than-expected-baby-bust-new-data-suggest-11644328800\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that the United States experienced around 7,000 fewer births in the initial nine months of 2021 when contrasted with the same time period a year before, per provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cStarting in June 2021, monthly births began to show consistent gains over their year-earlier levels, which reflect pre-pandemic conceptions, and that mostly offset declines in the first two months of 2021, the data show,\u201d the Journal noted, adding that the 2021 numbers are nationwide provisional estimates and \u201c[t]he federal government will issue a final count later this year, a CDC spokesman said. The provisional data are rounded to the nearest thousand and might differ from the final numbers by as much as 2%, according to the NCHS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some experts believed the COVID-19 pandemic would have a much larger impact on the birth rate across the country. In December, economists Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine reportedly put forward numbers demonstrating how the pandemic resulted in 60,000 missing births from October 2020 through February 2021. \u201cEarlier in the pandemic, they predicted the health crisis and economic uncertainty would lead to 300,000 to a half million fewer births last year,\u201d the outlet added.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe Covid baby bust doesn\u2019t seem to be nearly as large as I thought it would be,\u201d said Kearney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In September of last year, the U.S. Census Bureau <a href=\"https:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/stories\/2021\/09\/united-states-births-declined-during-the-pandemic.html\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201c<span class=\"s2\">There were 285,138 births in December 2020 \u2014 23,664 (7.66%) fewer than in December 2019. On average, there were 763 fewer births each day in December 2020 than in December 2019.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">This seemed to change in early 2021, however. The decline in births slowed down, possibly due to the fact that people delayed having children. \u201cBirths declined only 0.15% between March 2020 and March 2021. This is substantially smaller than the 0.91% drop from March 2019 to March 2020,\u201d the bureau added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The Census Bureau was quick to point out that all of the declines in births shouldn\u2019t be blamed on the pandemic due to birth rates going down over the last several years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In May of 2021, Pew Research <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/fact-tank\/2021\/05\/07\/with-a-potential-baby-bust-on-the-horizon-key-facts-about-fertility-in-the-u-s-before-the-pandemic\/\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a>, \u201cIn 2019, there were&nbsp;<span class=\"s3\">58.3 births for every 1,000 women<\/span>&nbsp;ages 15 to 44 in the U.S., down from 59.1 in 2018, making it the fifth consecutive year in which the fertility rate declined.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Journal reported that in 2020, the number of babies born in the country was the lowest in forty years. \u201cThe total fertility rate that year\u2014a snapshot of the average number of babies a woman would have over her lifetime\u2014fell to 1.64, the lowest rate on record since the government began tracking it in the 1930s,\u201d it added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Additionally, other countries saw similar numbers with regard to a drop-off in births and then a small uptick around the pandemic. \u201c<\/span>Twenty-one of the 30 countries with monthly data through March 2021 had fewer births in December 2020 than in 2019 but&nbsp;<i>more<\/i>&nbsp;births in March 2021 than in March 2020,\u201d the bureau noted.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Some point to COVID-19 government assistance as a contributing factor to the lesser effect of the pandemic on the birth rate, while others note that the change in life experienced by many young families because of the pandemic could result in a more permanent trend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>member<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Provisional data on the number of births in the United States showed that the COVID-19 pandemic might have had less of an impact on a \u201cbaby bust\u201d than was originally &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1282736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1282736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1282736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1282736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1282736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1282736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}