In 2021, nearly 3,664,300 births were recorded in the United States.  The twelve-state Southeastern U.S. region accounted for 951,550 births in 2021, or about 26% of all births in the U.S. that year.  With 11.08 births per 1,000 population, the Southeastern U.S. regional birth rate was close to par with the national average birth rate of 11.04 births per 1,000 population.  That said, the region's birth rate was heavily influenced by the low birth rate in Florida, the most populated state in the region.  Excluding Florida, the region's birth rate was about 3.9% above the national average.  A closer examination of 2021 data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following state-level details about birth rates in the Southeastern U.S.:

Birth Rates in the Southeastern U.S.

State	Births	Population	Birth Rate*
Alabama	58,054	5,039,877	11.52
Arkansas	35,965	3,025,891	11.89
Florida	216,260	21,781,128	9.93
Georgia	124,073	10,799,566	11.49
Kentucky	52,214	4,509,394	11.58
Louisiana	57,437	4,624,047	12.42
Mississippi	35,156	2,949,965	11.92
North Carolina	120,466	10,551,162	11.42
South Carolina	57,185	5,190,705	11.02
Tennessee	81,717	6,975,218	11.72
Virginia	95,825	8,642,274	11.09
West Virginia	17,198	1,782,959	9.65
Region	951,550	85,872,186	11.08
U.S.	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