Teen Birth Rates, Girls Aged 15-17 (number of births per 1,000 girls)

    Just the Facts (October 2000) – Page 75

    After decreasing 31 percent between 1960 and 1986, the teen birth rate for girls aged 15-17 increased 27 percent between 1986 and 1991, and then decreased 26 percent between 1991 and 1999 to its lowest rate ever recorded.

    * Data for 1999 are preliminary. Curtin, S.C., & Martin, J.A. (2000). Births: Preliminary data for 1999. National Vital Statistics Reports 48(14). Ventura, S.J., Mathews, T.J., & Curtin, S.C. (1998). Declines in teenage birth rates, 1991-97: National and state patterns. National Vital Statistics Reports 47(12).

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