US Birth Rate drops to record low in 2011 - a chart !

[Tender Branson]

I created this Excel chart with birth, death and natural increase numbers and rates for each state and comparisons for the US with previous years:

SORTED BY STATE'S BIRTH RATE



The birth rate dropped from 14.3 in 2007 to 12.7 in 2011.

Utah of course continues to be the state with the highest rate.

[Tender Branson]

Next I'll do a chart that shows the increase/decrease in number of births in each state between 2007 (pre-recession high) and 2011 - and the change in the state's birth rates (which is a better indicator because of population growth).

[Tender Branson]

Austria would be even below Maine in 2011:

It had a birth rate of 9.3 and a death rate of 9.1

My state of Salzburg would do slightly better: 9.5 for births vs. 8.0 for deaths

http://www.statistik.at/web_en/wcmsprod/groups/zd/documents/statueb/027681.pdf
http://www.statistik.at/web_en/wcmsprod/groups/zd/documents/statueb/027680.pdf
http://www.statistik.at/web_en/wcmsprod/groups/zd/documents/statueb/027679.pdf

[Tender Branson]

Next I'll do a chart that shows the increase/decrease in number of births in each state between 2007 (pre-recession high) and 2011 - and the change in the state's birth rates (which is a better indicator because of population growth).

Just finished this chart (you need to right-click it with your mouse to get the full-size pic):

(Sorted by "BIRTH RATE CHANGE IN %")



As you can see, North Dakota was the only state that saw a birth rate increase between 2007 and 2011, while Arizona had the biggest drop with more than 20%.

[Tender Branson]

TenderBranson, can you just put this on a shared Google Docs Spreadsheet?

https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B2v0JH_9G14tS1JHYzl2QTRTQTg