Barreto and colleagues evaluated U.S. National Vital Statistics System birth certificate data from 34,468,901 singleton live births (mean maternal age at delivery, 28 years) from 2009 to 2018.

While "the dramatic decline in the teen birth rate since the early 1990s has occurred across all race/ethnic and ...

Asians had lower birth rates than other racial and ethnic groups, among both foreign-born and U.S.-born women of childbearing age. Since 1990, the gap in birth rates among whites, blacks and Hispanics ...

Asians and Pacific Islanders led the way over this time, followed by Hispanics, with teen birth rate declines of 74% and 65%, respectively. Rates for white and black teens fell by more than 50% over ...

The American birth rate fell for the sixth consecutive year in 2020, with the lowest number of babies born since 1979, according to a new report. Some 3.6 million babies were born in the US in ...

The NCHS team found that women of Asian ethnic origin had the lowest rates of preterm births, ... The birth rate for teenagers aged 15–19 declined 9 percent in 2016 to 20.3 births per 1,000 women.

“Birthing Justice” is a new documentary that examines ethnic disparities in birth rates throughout the United States. News 12’s Gwen Edwards was joined by the film’s director, Monique ...

The U.S. birth rate dropped to about 56 births per 1,000 women of child-bearing age, the lowest rate on record. The rate is half of what it was in the early 1960s. The birth rate for 15- to 19 ...

Aside from an increase in 2006 and 2007, the teen birth rate in the U.S. has been continuously declining since 1991. From 2007 through 2023, rates for younger teens (ages 15-17) and older teens ...

From 2008 to 2017, the teen birth rate in New York City declined by 56.2% overall. In high poverty neighborhoods, the number of teen births dropped from 37.8 per every 1,000 teenage girls to 16.7.