The Nation - News from July 22, 1985
Americans had more children in 1984 than the previous year, but the upsurge in newborns was only an echo of the Baby Boom of the 1950s and early 1960s, the Census Bureau reported. There were 3,690,000 births and 2,046,000 deaths in 1984, the bureau said in its first report since 1979 that analyzes the components of population change. In 1983 there were 3,618,000 births, down from 3,681,000 in 1982. The nation’s population was set at 237,839,000 as of Jan. 1, 1985.
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