According to research by a demographer from the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire, the Hispanic birth rate has dropped more than ten percent in recent years.
Though people are having children less overall, the greatest decline has been among the Hispanic population.
Kenneth Johnson of the Carsey Institute told the Chicago Sun-Times, ‘Hispanic fertility is dropping like a stone,” pointing to the down economy as the main reason.
Though Hispanics have the highest fertility rates and are responsible for about a quarter of all babies born in the U.S., between 2007 and 2010, the Hispanic birth rate in Illinois alone dropped 15.4 percent, while nationally it dropped 17.6 percent.
