2010 census results: Why did US population growth slow?

Only during the Great Depression decade was the growth rate lower.

It has a lot to do with the economy.. By this time next year.. people will have the Rabbit Habit..

That is if things continue the way they are going moving slowly upwards.. When things are looking up.. more confidence.. the feeling of well being will 'exert' itself..

The census counted 13.1 million new immigrants, both legal and illegal, who have arrived in America since 2000. In addition, immigrant women gave birth to 8.2 million children in the decade.

According to government estimates there are roughly 10 million illegal aliens in the US so that means that we allowed on 3.1 million legal immigrants in a decade?

13.1 legal and illegal immigrants had 8.2 million children which accounts for 21.3 million people of the 27 million citizens the US added in a decade.

Below is a link to worldwide population growth.....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_growth_rate

A population's approximate doubling time is found by dividing 70 by its annual percentage population growth. For example, at a 4 percent growth rate, a country's population will double in about 18 years; at a 1 percent growth rate, it will take about 70 years. The average population growth rate for theworld is 1.17%.

.......msnbc article on birth trends

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26288149/ns/health-womens_health/

The average childbearing age in Britain now stands at 29.3 years, the highest level since records began in 1938, a study for the Office for National Statistics said.

Anastasia de Waal, the director of family and education for the think tank Civitas, said: "With education opportunities being much better now for women, many are going in to higher level professions and become higher status and therefore have to be careful about when they leave the workforce to have a child."

She added there was also a strong economic link either because most households now needed both people working or because families had to balance wanting a large family with how much it will cost to raise one.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/8020899/Women-having-fewer-children-and-later.html

Some observers have suggested that the rapid decline in fertility to very low levels in Southern and Eastern Europe and some countries in Asia, most notably Japan, is due to a lack of change in the family role expectations for women in these countries (McDonald, 2000).

In countries where women’s labor market opportunities expand but women are still expected to do most of the housework and child care with little assistance from men, many women exercise the only choice available; they remain childless when work and family roles are too difficult to reconcile. Perhaps even in the U.S., motherhood may be foregone as women devote time to careers and face the difficulty of “fitting it all” in when jobs are both fulfilling but also demanding of time and energy.

Currently in the U.S., among women age 40 to 44, 20 percent have never had a child, double the percentage 30 years ago, and this percentage rises to 27 percent for those with graduate or professional degrees (Dye, 2007). [emphasis added]

http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/01/educated-women-having-fewer-children/

Mexico, a predominantly Roman Catholic country where huge families were once the norm, is sending the stork packing after just two children. It's a development that could affect U.S. immigration as Mexico's population growth slows to a crawl and the trend toward smaller families leads to more disposable income.

Census experts refer to 2.1 children as the "natural replacement rate," meaning Mexico is just barely replacing the generations who will die in coming years. Hispanic immigrants in the United States are now reproducing at a faster rate, 2.8 children per woman, than Mexicans in Mexico. Sociologists say that is because immigrants tend to be less educated and come from poorer, rural areas of Mexico.

"Here in Mexico, we have seen a substantial decline in fertility rates, and it's fundamentally due to the increasing education level of women and their participation in economic life," said Carlos Welti, a population expert at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/0404nobabies.html