Cuban-American Teen Birth Rates (number of births per 1,000 girls)

    Just the Facts (October 2000) – Page 89

    Generally speaking, Cuban-American teen birth rates were increasing between 1991 and 1997. Between 1997 and 1998, rates for 15- to 19-year-olds decreased 37 percent, rates for girls aged 15-17 decreased 38 percent, and rates for girls aged 18-19 decreased 27 percent.

    Girls aged 18-19

    Girls aged 15-19

    Girls aged 15-17

    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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