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USA Live Births and general fertility rates (1920–2013)

A total of 3,932,181 births were registered in the United States in 2013, down less than 1% from 2012. The number of births declined for non-Hispanic white and Hispanic women but did not appre­ ciably change for non-Hispanic black women from 2012 to 2013.

• The general fertility rate declined 1% in 2013 to 62.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15–44, reaching another record low for the United States. The total fertility rate also declined 1% in 2013, to 1,857.5 births per 1,000 women.
• The birth rate for teenagers aged 15–19 declined 10% in 2013 from 2012, to 26.5 births per 1,000 teenagers aged 15–19, another historic low for the nation; rates declined for teenagers in nearly all race and Hispanic origin groups.

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Reference

Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Osterman MJK, Curtin SC. Births: Preliminary data for 2014. National vital statistics reports; vol 64 no 6. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2015.

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_06.pdf

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