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:
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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
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