A higher death rate from the COVID pandemic almost certainly hastened our reaching net negative numbers. Birth numbers in Alabama haven’t fallen off the table. But they are down compared to ...
Kay Ivey on workforce participation numbers. To be fair, a declining birth rate isn’t a problem faced solely by Alabama. Demographers and statisticians are seeing birth numbers globally ...
One study found Alabama had a maternal mortality rate of 64.63 deaths per 100,000 births between 2018 and 2021, nearly double the national rate of 34.09 per 100,000 births. That jumps to 100.07 ...