Colorado’s fertility rate plummeting,
now one of US lowest
Posted By: NorthernDog, 12/9/2022 7:11:38 PM
DENVER — Coloradan women are becoming less and less interested in having children. Women in the U.S. and much of the developed world have been experiencing a drop in fertility rates in the 21st century. In Colorado, the trend has been especially pronounced. It has one of the nation’s lowest fertility rates and saw one of the sharpest declines in birth rates over the last 15 years. The fertility rate differs from the birth rate. While the birth rate measures the number of children born for every thousand people, the fertility rate measures how many children are likely to be
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