For the last 50 years, people in Utah have consistently had more children than the rest of the country, but this gap has narrowed since 2010 and now there is very little to set the state apart from the nation, a new report shows. In 1980, women in Utah were having 1.3 more children than the average American woman, a significantly bigger gap than in 2023, which was just 0.2, according to Utah Women and Leadership Project (UWLP) analysis published last week. “From what I’ve seen across the