> "Did men and women stop making babies and I didn't notice?"
In the US, birth rates have declined from ~2.0 children per woman in the 90s and 00s to ~1.6 in the 20s, so yes.
Also note that your numbers seem to be single or not single rather than married or not married — that is, folks who are dating are included.
I will also add that there are people in my social circle who are very much in FWB relationships or “situationships” — that is, it doesn’t seem like a nurturing, consistent, or stable relationship from the outside looking in. These folks probably don't count as “single” in your numbers, but they functionally are.
As for folks over 50 — yeah, I’ve seen a lot of them just give up on dating. They live very active lives, and dating isn’t a part of it.
I'm not sure why anybody other than a social security acturiarian would care about the children per woman rate.
More on point is:
"Some 86% of women ages 40 to 44 are mothers, compared with 80% in 2006, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data." That was as of 2018 and the first link that came up.
Clearly men and women are still making babies. This number if accurate is actually surprisingly high.
In the US, birth rates have declined from ~2.0 children per woman in the 90s and 00s to ~1.6 in the 20s, so yes.
Also note that your numbers seem to be single or not single rather than married or not married — that is, folks who are dating are included.
I will also add that there are people in my social circle who are very much in FWB relationships or “situationships” — that is, it doesn’t seem like a nurturing, consistent, or stable relationship from the outside looking in. These folks probably don't count as “single” in your numbers, but they functionally are.
As for folks over 50 — yeah, I’ve seen a lot of them just give up on dating. They live very active lives, and dating isn’t a part of it.