Births/Natality
(Data are for U.S. in 2002)
Number of births: 4,021,726
Birth
rate: 13.9 per 1,000 population
Fertility
rate: 64.8 per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years
Percent
born low birthweight: 7.8
Birth
rate to unmarried women: 43.7 per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44 years
Source: Births:
Final Data for 2002
More
data
Live
births, birth rates and fertility rates by race, 1940-2001
Births: Final Data for
2002, table 1
Live
births by age of mother, live-birth order, and race
Births: Final Data for
2002, table 2
Fertility
rates and birth rates by age of mother, live-birth order, and race
Births: Final Data for
2002, table 3
Related
links
Birth
data
Reproductive
health links
National
Survey of Family Growth
Links
to State Health Departments
DHHS
Fatherhood Initiative
Teenage
pregnancy links
This page last reviewed
March 25, 2004
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