In 2020, there were just over 3,613,600 births in the United States.  The five-state Great Lakes region recorded 505,773 births in 2020, or about 14% of all births in the U.S. that year.  With 10.80 births per 1,000 population, the Great Lakes' regional birth rate was only 1.5% below the national average birth rate.  Further examination of state-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following details about birth rates in the Great Lakes region:

Birth Rates in the Great Lakes Region

State	Births	Population	Birth Rate*
Illinois	133,298	12,587,530	10.59
Indiana	78,616	6,754,953	11.64
Michigan	104,074	9,966,555	10.44
Ohio	129,191	11,693,217	11.05
Wisconsin	60,594	5,832,655	10.39
Region	505,773	46,834,910	10.80
U.S.	3,613,647	329,484,123	10.97

(*) number of births per 1,000 population

Report Period: 2020

Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Natality on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data are from the Natality Records 2016-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on July 27, 2022