U.S. Fertility Rate Hits 35-Year High, Stabilizing Population
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For the first time in 35 years, the U.S. fertility rate has climbed high enough to sustain a stable population, solidifying the nation's unique status among industrialized countries.
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WASHINGTON - Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.
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U.S. housing starts unexpectedly  rose 4.7 percent last month to a nearly 21-year high as  single-family housing starts shot up to a record, a Commerce  Department report showed on Wednesday.
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The productivity of American workers, the critical component for rising living standards, increased by 4.1 percent in 2004, capping a remarkable three-year period in which worker efficiency climbed at the fastest pace in a half century.
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The Caesarean delivery rate for U.S. women hit a record high in 2005, spiking by nearly 50 percent in a decade, while teen births fell to a new low and births by unmarried mothers rose, according to government data released on Tuesday.
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SHANGHAI, China  - China's population, now the world's largest at 1.3 billion, will peak at just under 1.5 billion in about 30 years, the country's head of population planning was quoted on Monday as saying.
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In discussions with 300  pregnant adolescents, 42 percent expressed fears of not being  able to get pregnant. This is remarkable, say doctors from  Rhode Island.
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A new wave of immigration is driving the US population's march to 300 million.
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The largest-ever North American study on the subject finds that assisted reproductive technology can raise the risk of birth defects
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The U.S. economy expanded at its fastest rate in four years during the third quarter, the government confirmed on Thursday, though it has slowed sharply since and is expected to keep doing so in 2008.
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The number of twins nationwide has increased by 65 percent in the past two decades in part due to reproductive technology for older mothers.
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The Continent's plummeting fertility rate is a time bomb, threatening economic growth and social welfare. But what can governments do about it? How states are trying to get people to have more kids
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The 2006 census, released over the summer, shows a rapid rise in immigration in the past decade.
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WASHINGTON: Americans are getting taller on average but they are much heavier too, according to government figures released on Wednesday showing that the US population is, literally, growing.
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The U.S. population is on target to hit 300 million this fall and it&#039;s a good bet the milestone baby &amp;#151; or immigrant &amp;#151; will be Hispanic.
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The increase would boost American forces in the country to 27,000, the highest level since 2001.
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After falling steadily for more than a decade, the birth rate for American teenagers jumped last year, federal health officials reported yesterday, a sharp reversal in what has been one of the nation's most celebrated social and public health successes.