Teen Birth Rates, Girls Aged 18-19 (number of births per 1,000 girls)

    Just the Facts (October 2000) – Page 76

    After decreasing 53 percent between 1960 and 1987, the teen birth rate for girls aged 18-19 increased 20 percent between 1987 and 1992, and then decreased 15 percent between 1992 and 1999 to a near-record low.

    * 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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