{"id":7200,"date":"2022-12-07T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-07T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7200"},"modified":"2022-12-06T16:55:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T16:55:07","slug":"twin-births-declined-7-during-first-year-of-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/12\/07\/7200\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Births Declined 7% During First Year of the Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7201\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Two infants sleeping curled up together. Text reads twin births declined in the United States in late 2020 and early 2021.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2022\/12\/22-334936-SM-Graphic-NVSR-71-9-Twin-Births.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Following an average annual decline of 2% from 2014 to 2019, the number of twin births fell by 7% from 2019 to 2020 and increased by 2% from 2020 to 2021.\u00a0 The data is featured in a new report released today by\u00a0 CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).<\/p>\n<p>The report &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr71\/nvsr71-09.pdf\">Changes in Twin Births in the United States, 2019\u20132021<\/a>&#8221; examines changes in the number and rate of twin births from 2019 to 2021 by month and year of birth and age and race and Hispanic origin of the mother.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Other findings documented in the report:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The number of twin births in the United States fell by 7% from 2019 to 2020, compared with a 3% decline in the number of singleton births.<\/li>\n<li>The twin birth rate declined by 3%. By month, the largest declines from 2019 to 2020 occurred in November and December when the number of twin births declined by 15% and 19%.<\/li>\n<li>The twin birth rate from 2019 to 2020 declined by 11% for women aged 40 and over, 5% for those aged 30\u201339, and 1% for females under age 30.<\/li>\n<li>From 2020 to 2021, the total number of twin births rose by 2%.<\/li>\n<li>By month, the twin birth rate declined by 7% in January 2021 compared with the year before and generally remained stable until the end of the year, when rates increased by 7% in November and 14% in December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following an average annual decline of 2% from 2014 to 2019, the number of twin births fell by 7% from 2019 to 2020 and increased by 2% from 2020 to 2021.\u00a0 The data is featured in a new report released today by\u00a0 CDC\u2019s National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS). The report &#8220;Changes in Twin Births<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,47317,53751],"tags":[64365],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7203,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7200\/revisions\/7203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}