List the significant population trends from 2016 to 2041. (For example, if there was a significant increase in the birth of babies, this indicates an upward trend in births leading to a baby boom and if the data suggested there was an increasingly ageing population, one could suggest the trend over time is an ageing population.)
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Answer: The fertility rate measures the number of births per 1,000 women of childbearing age (ages 15 to 44) occurring in a particular year; birth rates refer to this measure within particular age groups.
Fertility rates in the United States declined sharply from the Baby Boom years of the 1950s and early 1960s until 1975 (118 and 66 births per 1,000 women of childbearing age in 1960 and 1975, respectively). Since 1975, fertility rates have been relatively stable, ranging from 60 to 71 births per 1,000 women. There were small peaks in 1990 and 2007, but rates have since declined to the lowest in recent history, standing at 60 per 1,000 women in 2017. The highest total number of births ever registered in the United States (4,317,119) was in 2007 (Appendix 1).*