U.S. Birth Rate Falls To A Record Low; Decline Is Greatest Among Immigrants by Gretchen Livingston and D'Vera Cohn. Pew Research Center. November 29, 2012.
Comparative figures: Overall U.S. birth rate--8% decline from 2007-2010; U.S.-born women birth rate-- 6% decline; Foreign-born women birth rate--14% decline; Mexican immigrant women--23% decline.
Preliminary figures for 2011 indicate a birth rate of 63.2 per 1,000 rate compared with 122.7 in 1957.
The advent of the Great Recession in 2007 marked the end of an increase in U.S. births that had begun in 2002.
Foreign born mothers give birth to a disproportionate share of U.S. newborns: 23% share of all births as compared with the 13% share of the U.S. population.
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