The number of U.S. births dropped slightly in 2022 after rising last year, with only 10 states seeing more than 100,000 births.
The country saw 3,661,220 births in 2022, according to a May 1 report (pdf) from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics. This is a marginal decline from the 3,664,292 births in 2021, a decrease of 3,072.
The latest numbers come after a 4 percent decline in 2019–2020 and a 1 percent jump in 2020–2021. The United States has seen births fall by 2 percent annually between 2014 and 2020.
California topped the list of states with the highest number of births, registering 418,523 infants in 2022. This was followed by Texas with 389,533 births, Florida with 224,226, and New York with 207,484 births. Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois, and Georgia were the other states which saw births exceed 100,000….