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.
