As per a recent study, the number of babies born in the United States reduced by 2.6 percent as compared to last year. This is the latest news in a still longer list of falling indicators.

According to another new report from the National Center for Health Statistics, the birth rate which takes into account changes in population dropped to 13.5 percent for every 1,000 people previous year. This was in comparison to
13.9 births in 2008 and 14.3 births in 2007.

Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, said that this news does not come as a surprise because of the sad state of the American economy currently.

He told CNN, “The birth rate is falling because of the Great Recession. When people are unsure of their financial future, they tend to postpone having children. It's stronger now than in the last couple of recessions because this is a stronger recession.”

The decline in the US birth rate has been happening since the beginning of the economic downturn in late 2007. Cherlin says that the birth rates should pick up as the economy picks up.