‘More people died than were born in the Netherlands for the first time since 1900, national statistics agency CBS said on Wednesday. The total growth last year – taking the population up to 17.8 million – was therefore entirely down …
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by C Hamilton Total US births are collapsing and likely to continue falling significantly further over the coming decade(s). However, this isn’t our first rodeo…as total births collapsed during the 1960’s ’til early ’80’s…almost inexplicably against a fast growing childbearing …
via Bill McBride From the National Center for Health Statistics: Births: Provisional Data for 2017. The NCHS reports: The provisional number of births for the United States in 2017 was 3,853,472, down 2% from 2016 and the lowest number in 30 years. …