New York, NY – After two decades, New York City's birth rate finally registered some growth. According to city Deputy Health Commissioner Lorna Thorpe, 125,506 children were born in 2006, more than 3,000 babies compared to 122,725 infants born in 2005.
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New York City residents are happy with the growing number of children born, but the city average of 2.3 percent birth growth rate is slightly lower than the national average of 3 percent. This is because 40 percent of pregnancies in the city ended in abortion, Thorpe explained.
While the capital city is growing, the state increased at a slower pace. As of July 1, there were only 19.3 million New York State residents, up by a mere 0.8 percent in 2007. In contrast the nation's population grew by 0.9 percent to 303 million residents as of Dec. 31.
If the trend continues, chances are New York State will lose one seat in Congress when reapportionment of seats follow the 2010 census. [ahn]
The guy that wrote this article seems to be mathematiclly challenged. 19 Million, .09 million increase to 303 Million…, NOT!
B”H
UNDER 3,000
the corect number is 2,781
Three thousand more births…uh huh. Since fertility drugs are more accessible now than they were 20 years ago, maybe that’s contributing to this so called “increase.” Now we all know that women who use fertility drugs tend to have multiple births.