50 years of births in the US
This figure shows the downward trend in births in the U.S. as measured by the total fertility rate, a commonly used metric that describes the number of births that a hypothetical woman would have over her lifetime, based on age-specific birth rates in a given year.
a red line starts at 2.48 in 1970, hovers around 1.8 through much of the 1980s, rises to a little above 2 for the 1990s and 2000s and then declines from 2007
