Twin Birth Rate Drops For First Time Since The '80s
The twin birth rate nearly doubled between 1980 and 2014. Now it's going down among white mothers. What's behind the change?
by Emily Vaughn
Oct 03, 2019
2 minutes
For the first time in nearly 40 years, the twin birth rate in the U.S. is on the decline. According to a data brief published Thursday from the National Center for Health Statistics, twin births declined in the U.S. by 4% from 2014 to 2018. The decline follows decades of steady growth which began in the 1980s and lasted through the early 2000s.
The leading theory for the trend reversal
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