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Immigrant Birthrate Declining Rapidly


WASHINGTON, Oct. 2, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new report by the Center for Immigration Studies finds that fertility rates have declined much more rapidly among immigrants than the native-born. As a result, immigration's modest impact on slowing the aging of America is becoming even smaller. Immigration increases the size of the country's population significantly, but the impact on the overall fertility rate in the country is small because the difference between immigrants and natives is modest.

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Dr. Steven Camarota, director of research and author of the report, said, "Many commentators claim that the high immigrant fertility will 'rebuild the demographic pyramid,' but this view is mistaken.  Declining immigrant fertility means that the modest impact immigration once had is now even smaller." He continued, "If present trends continue, the Total Fertility Rate of immigrants may even drop below 2.1 in the next few years, the level necessary to replace the existing population."

View the entire report at: https://cis.org/Report/Declining-Fertility-Immigrants-and-Natives

Key findings:

Contact: Marguerite Telford
202-466-8185, [email protected]

SOURCE Center for Immigration Studies



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