New Statistics Released
According to the recently released data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), the teen birth rate in the U.S. for the year 2006 rose for the first time in 14 years.
This was up from 40.5 births per 1,000 in 2005, but still well below the 62 births per 1,000 recorded in 1991. It is too early to know if this is the beginning of a trend but it may be a concern.
This increase was accounted for by about 20,000 more births among teens in the U.S. in 2006 than the previous year, with a 5% increase seen among African-American teens, a 3% increase among non-Hispanic whites, and a 2% increase among Hispanics.
Other statistics from this report were:
• The overall birth rate increased by 3% to 4.26 million between 2005 and 2006 which was the largest single-year increase since 1989 and the largest total number of births since 1961
• The number of cesarean deliveries and births to unmarried women hit all-time highs
• Teen childbirths rose by 3% in 2006, to about 42 births for every 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 19.
• Birth rates rose by 4% among women between the ages of 20 and 24, to 105 births per 1,000 and by 3% among those aged 40 to 44, to 9.4 births per 1,000.
• It appears to some that an increasing number of families are made up of more than one or two children and when it comes to family planning, three may be the new two.
• The preterm birth rate rose slightly in 2006
• The rate of infant deaths remained at a relatively stable
• African-American newborns continued to be more than twice as likely as white and Hispanic infants to die in the first year of life.
• More than half of all infant deaths in 2005 were from birth defects, premature delivery, sudden infant death syndrome, and complications at delivery.
• There were 2.44 million deaths in the United States in 2005, an increase of about 50,000 deaths over 2004.
• Life expectancy continued to increase to a record high of 77.9 years in 2005, or 0.1 year more than the previous year.
• The life expectancy for a white female born in 2005 is now 80.8 years, compared to 75.7 years for a white male, 76.5 years for a black female, and 69.6 years for a black male.
This was up from 40.5 births per 1,000 in 2005, but still well below the 62 births per 1,000 recorded in 1991. It is too early to know if this is the beginning of a trend but it may be a concern.
This increase was accounted for by about 20,000 more births among teens in the U.S. in 2006 than the previous year, with a 5% increase seen among African-American teens, a 3% increase among non-Hispanic whites, and a 2% increase among Hispanics.
Other statistics from this report were:
• The overall birth rate increased by 3% to 4.26 million between 2005 and 2006 which was the largest single-year increase since 1989 and the largest total number of births since 1961
• The number of cesarean deliveries and births to unmarried women hit all-time highs
• Teen childbirths rose by 3% in 2006, to about 42 births for every 1,000 females between the ages of 15 and 19.
• Birth rates rose by 4% among women between the ages of 20 and 24, to 105 births per 1,000 and by 3% among those aged 40 to 44, to 9.4 births per 1,000.
• It appears to some that an increasing number of families are made up of more than one or two children and when it comes to family planning, three may be the new two.
• The preterm birth rate rose slightly in 2006
• The rate of infant deaths remained at a relatively stable
• African-American newborns continued to be more than twice as likely as white and Hispanic infants to die in the first year of life.
• More than half of all infant deaths in 2005 were from birth defects, premature delivery, sudden infant death syndrome, and complications at delivery.
• There were 2.44 million deaths in the United States in 2005, an increase of about 50,000 deaths over 2004.
• Life expectancy continued to increase to a record high of 77.9 years in 2005, or 0.1 year more than the previous year.
• The life expectancy for a white female born in 2005 is now 80.8 years, compared to 75.7 years for a white male, 76.5 years for a black female, and 69.6 years for a black male.
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