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  1. PopulationUnited States

    US: those born in 2007 turned 18 in 2025; every generation after them is smaller

    2007: age 184,316 thousand2010: age 153,999 thousand2013: age 123,932 thousand2016: age 93,946 thousand2019: age 63,748 thousand2022: age 33,668 thousand2025: newborns3,606 thousandBorn in the US in a year; 2025 provisional

    In 2007, 4.32 million babies were born, more than in any year since 1933, level with the baby-boom peak (4.31 million). In 2019: 3.75 million; in 2025: 3.61 million.

    Source: Human Mortality Database (US births) · CC BY 4.0; NCHS: births for 2024 and 2025Open on the chart →
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    The 2007 cohort is the largest in US birth records since the 1930s. It has finished school and is going to college and work. Every following class will be smaller: colleges, schools and employers will compete for fewer young people.

    Bars: babies born in the US that year, thousands; the label gives their age in 2025.

    Human Mortality Database (registered births, from 1933) and, for the latest years, NCHS (final 2024 data, provisional 2025). Every year after 2007 is smaller: by 1.6% to 16.7%.

    These are births, not future students: some children will move in, some out, and migration can noticeably change the number of 18-year-olds. 2007 beats the baby-boom peak by a fraction of a percent: level, in effect. 2025 data are provisional.

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    And in Europe? Almost half as many babies are born as in 1959.

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