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CV NEWS FEED // A decline in religion is likely to lead to a decline in fertility, according to a new analysis from statistician Ryan Burge.
“Every major religious tradition has centuries of theology and instruction about the value of finding a spouse and one common thread that runs through religious traditions is the admonition to have children,” Burge wrote in a September 5 article on his Substack.
According to Burge, Americans’ tendency to not be affiliated with any religion has resulted in fewer births.
The data showed that female respondents aged 15 to 50 who said they were not affiliated with any religion were twice as likely to have never been pregnant in their lives compared to women belonging to any faith.
Of non-religious women aged 35 to 50, “53% of women had zero or one child,” according to Burge. The same thing applied to 31% of Protestants, 30% of Catholics, and 25% of women belonging to other religions.
He later added, “The conclusion here is clear – non-religious women have lower fertility than those of any other faith tradition.”
Burge’s full analysis can be read here.
