Press Release Summary: A recent study of the past year\'s birth rate shows that it has exceeded the number of births recorded during the peak of the baby boom years. However, demographers urge the public not to think of it as the dawning of yet another baby boom because there were more children born in the baby boom years but from significantly lesser women as compared to the number of women giving birth last year.
Press Release Body: Washington - The birth rate recorded last 2007 has exceeded the number of children born during the peak of the baby boom year in 1957, says a recent statistics study done in the United States. However, the study explains that the increased number of births last year is not the same as in the mid-50s.
Last 2007, a rough estimate of 4,315,000 children were born in the United States. That\'s 15,000 babies more than the highest recorded birth rate during the baby boom years, which is 4,300,000 children, says Stephanie Ventura. Ventura is one of the demographers working for the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which ran a data compilation of all provisional birth certificate registrations from various state health departments.
According to the tentative date compiled, last year\'s birth rate was the highest in the history of the United States. But this information should not be misinterpreted as the dawning of yet another baby boom, because back in the mid-50s there were just as many children born but from a substantially fewer number of women.
Ventura further reiterates that the data merely shows an increase in the number of births in the United States in the past years. This increase in birth rate is to be expected, considering that there has been a significant growth in the number of women added to the population since the baby boom years. Naturally, the more women there is in the population, the more babies will be born of those women. Hence the inevitable increase in the existing birth rate.
In addition to what she had explained earlier, Ventura further states that although birth rates in the preceding years leading up to 2007 showed a steady but rather slight increase in the number of births, not the substantial population growth noted in the baby boom years, which were between 1946 to 1964.
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