CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., The U.S. birth rate has plummeted in the past two years, but may be poised for a recovery depending on the state of the economy according to new research by Demographic Intelligence. The quarterly U.S. Fertility Forecast provides investors and the baby products manufacturing industry with accurate birth rate forecasts in the near term and into 2015.
Demographic Intelligence (DI) today released The U.S. Fertility Forecast(TM), which projects U.S. fertility from 2010 through 2015 for the juvenile products industry. The report indicates that U.S. births bottomed out in 2010 and are now rising--a good sign for the juvenile products industry, according to Dr. W. Bradford Wilcox, President of Demographic Intelligence.