Amid a rapidly collapsing U.S. birth rate, new research released last week indicates that a major factor in the decline in fertility is likely the release of the iPhone in 2007, which began the era of widespread smartphone adoption and ushered in significant changes in societal behavior, including reduced in-person interactions and increased pornography consumption.
Data released by the CDC in April revealed that the birth rate in America reached a new record low of 53.1 births per 1,000 women, continuing a plunge that began in earnest in 2007. Following a high fertility rate (the average number of births per woman) in the early 1960s of just under four, births nosedived throughout the late ’60s and ’70s, bottoming out at around two by 1980. The rate stayed relatively steady, hovering around two for the next two decades, but in 2007, fertility once again began to drop, to the puzzlement of researchers. The rate has steadily declined over the next 18 years to a current rate of 1.6, well below the level needed to keep the population stable (2.1).
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