There were approximately 3,664.300 births recorded in the United States in 2021.  The six-state Far Western U.S. region accounted for 614,106 births or about 16.5% of the 2021 national total.  With 10.68 births per 1,000 population, the Far Western U.S. regional birth rate was 3.2% lower than the 2021 national average birth rate of 11.04 births per 1,000 population.  Alaska was the only state in the region to record a birth rate that was higher than the national average.  A deeper examination of data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics provides the following state-level details about birth rates in the Far Western U.S. region:

Birth Rates in the Far Western U.S.

State	Births	Population	Birth Rate*
Alaska	9,367	732,673	12.78
California	420,608	39,237,836	10.72
Hawaii	15,620	1,441,553	10.84
Nevada	33,686	3,143,991	10.71
Oregon	40,914	4,246,155	9.64
Washington	83,911	7,738,692	10.84
Region	604,106	56,540,900	10.68
U.S. Totals	3,664,292	331,893,745	11.04

(*) number of births per 1,000 population

Report Period: 2021

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 2016-2021, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on July 8, 2023