Editing Hutterites (section)

===Growth===
The very high birth rate among the Hutterites has decreased dramatically since 1950,<ref name=kraybill/> as they have dropped from around ten children per family in 1954 to around five in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cascadiapublishinghouse.com/dsm/winter11/jescma.htm |title=Review of The Hutterites in North America |publisher=Cascadiapublishinghouse.com |access-date=September 16, 2013}}</ref> Hutterite fertility rates remain relatively high compared to the general North American population, but relatively low compared to other traditional Anabaptist groups like the Amish or the Old Order Mennonites. While Hutterite women traditionally married around the ages of 20 or 21, marriages in the 21st century very often are delayed until the late 20s. Whereas Hutterite women traditionally had children until their mid 40s, today most Hutterite women have their last child around the age of 35.

{|class=wikitable
|+Birth rate (per 1000)<ref name=kraybill>{{cite book|last1=Kraybill|first1=Donald B.|last2=Bowman|first2=Carl Desportes|title=On the Backroad to Heaven: '''Old Order''' Hutterites, Mennonites, Amish, and Brethren|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lPxtIkM7V6sC|date=September 3, 2002|publisher=JHU Press|isbn=9780801870897}}</ref>
!Year
!Hutterites
!South Dakotans
|-
|1950
|45.9
|23.4
|-
|1970
|43.0
|14.7
|-
|1990
|35.2
|12.1
|}

{|class=wikitable
|+{{no break|Fertility rate (per woman)<ref>{{cite book|date=September 3, 2002|publisher=JHU Press|pmid=8026812|isbn=9780801870897|last1=Nonaka|first1=K.|last2=Miura|first2=T.|last3=Peter|first3=K.|title=Recent fertility decline in Dariusleut Hutterites: An extension of Eaton and Mayer's Hutterite fertility study|journal=Human Biology|volume=66|issue=3|pages=411–20}}</ref>|title=Recent fertility decline in Dariusleut Hutterites: an extension of Eaton and Mayer's Hutterite fertility study.}}
!Year
!Fertility rate
|-
|1940
|10.57
|-
|1950
|9.83
|-
|1970
|7.22
|-
|1980
|6.29
|-
|1990
|4.63
|}