The surplus of births over deaths in the Little Rock metropolitan statistical area has narrowed since 1990, Metroplan notes in its July report on demographics in the region.
In 1990 there were nearly 9,000 births compared with about 4,600 deaths, almost 2 for 1. By 2014 the ratio was down to about 3 births for every 2 deaths.
When COVID-19 hit, “mortality jumped while births continued slowly declining, although there were still slightly more births than deaths,” said the report, Metro Trends: Changing Demographics in Central Arkansas.
Metroplan is the planning agency for central Arkansas
