Concord Monitor: Pandemic baby bust taking hold in New Hampshire
Kenneth Johnson
Monday, February 22, 2021
Courtesy of the Associated Press
In December of 2020, nine months after New Hampshire's first stay-at-home order was announced, there were about 180 fewer births than the same period in 2019 and at least 100 fewer than any year since 2015, according to data from the NH Vital Records Information Network. Kenneth Johnson, senior demographer with the Carsey School, said this the decline in births is only expected to grow. According to Johnson, “I think a lot of women who might have been thinking about having children have simply decided that this is not the time to have a baby."
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