Teen Birth Rates, Girls Aged 10-14 (number of births per 1,000 girls)

    Just the Facts (October 2000) – Page 77

    After increasing 27 percent between 1983 and 1989, the teen birth rate for girls aged 10-14 remained constant between 1989 and 1994 and then decreased 36 percent between 1994 and 1999 to its lowest rate ever recorded.

    Note: 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., Martin, J.A., Curtin, S.C., Mathews, T.J., & Park, M.M. (2000). Birth: Final data for 1998. National Vital Statistics Reports 48(3).

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