In its first year, the pandemic lowered the twin birthrate in the United States, a report from the CDC suggests.
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Twins are more common than ever before. Researchers estimate that since the 1980s, the rate of twin births has picked up by a third worldwide. When researchers analyzed birth records from 2019 and 2020, when the pandemic began, they found a decrease in all births. But the drop in the number of twin births in the United States outpaced those of single children; while the number of single births declined 3 percent, twin births fell 7 percent.
From 2019 to 2020, although the decline was small for women under 30, it rose to 5 percent for those ages 30 to 39 and 11 percent for those 40 and older. In December 2020 alone, women 40 and older saw their twin birthrate fall 35 percent from a year before.
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