Flawed natality data

Number of births in 2023 and 2024 siloed by highest educational attainment of the mother

Annual birthrate per 100 mothers based on US Census data for number of women in each educational silo. The birthrate for women with Ph.D.s appears to be a flier.

Birth numbers from CDC Natality site. You need to drill through several layers to get to the request form. Only number of births available for Educational Attainment silo.

Number of women by highest educational attainment from US Census Bureau.

Flawed number. "...for women 25 years old and older..." so the denominator is too low (except for the Ph.Ds and maybe the Master's). The discrepancy is in the denominator so I would expect the "some college" denominator of "Bachelors to decrease for births to 20 and 21 year-olds and for Master's to decrease for births to 20-to-24 year-olds thereby shortening the "some college" column and raising the Bachelor's and Master's columns slightly.

The blue columns are 2016 data and the red columns are 2024 data.

 

In 2016 the population was estimated to be 329million and in 2024 the population was estimated to be 345 million.

The graph appears to show women choosing to delay their child-bearing until "later".