In 2020, more than 3,613,600 births were recorded in the United States.  The twelve-state Southeastern U.S. region accounted for 932,706 births in 2020, or about 25.8% of all births in the U.S. that year.  With 10.90 births per 1,000 population, the Southeastern U.S. regional birth rate was close to par with the national average birth rate of 10.97 births per 1,000 population.  A closer examination of 2020 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	57,647	4,921,532	11.71
Arkansas	35,251	3,030,522	11.63
Florida	209,671	21,733,312	9.65
Georgia	122,473	10,710,017	11.44
Kentucky	51,668	4,477,251	11.54
Louisiana	57,328	4,645,318	12.34
Mississippi	35,473	2,966,786	11.96
North Carolina	116,730	10,600,823	11.01
South Carolina	55,704	5,218,040	10.68
Tennessee	78,689	6,886,834	11.43
Virginia	94,749	8,590,563	11.03
West Virginia	17,323	1,784,787	9.71
Region	932,706	85,565,785	10.90
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 August 6, 2022