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104. Numbers and Rates of Pregnancies, Live Births, Induced Abortions, and Fetal Losses for Teenagers, by Age, Race, and Hispanic Origin: 1996



 
Number (1,000) Rate per 1,000 women
Pregnancy outcome and 15-19 years old 15-19 years old
race and Hispanic origin
10-14 15-17 18-19 10-14 15-17 18-19
years Total years years years Total years years
old old old old old old
 
    ALL RACES 1
 
All pregnancies               26 893 372 521 2.8 98.7 67.8 146.4
  Live births                 11 492 186 306 1.2 54.4 33.8 86.0
  Induced abortions           10 264 104 160 1.1 29.2 19.0 44.9
  Fetal losses 2           4 137 82 55 0.5 15.2 15.0 15.5
 
NON-HISPANIC
 
White:
  All pregnancies               7 416 163 253 1.1 68.1 43.9 105.6
  Live births                 3 229 76 153 0.4 37.6 20.6 63.7
  Induced abortions           3 117 46 71 0.5 19.1 12.5 29.4
  Fetal losses 2           1 70 40 30 0.2 11.4 10.8 12.4
 
Black:
  All pregnancies         12 242 106 136 8.7 177.8 128.1 254.4
  Live births                 5 128 55 73 3.8 94.2 66.6 136.6
  Induced abortions           5 90 36 54 3.9 65.9 43.7 100.1
  Fetal losses 2       1 24 15 9 1.0 17.7 17.7 17.7
 
HISPANIC 3
 
All pregnancies               5 183 74 110 4.3 157.1 105.0 235.4
  Live births                 3 119 48 71 2.6 101.8 69.0 151.1
  Induced abortions           2 45 17 28 1.3 38.6 24.7 59.5
  Fetal losses 2           1 20 8 12 0.4 16.7 11.3 24.8

1 Includes races other than White and Black.
2 Spontaneous fetal losses from recognized pregnancies of all gestational periods as reported by women in the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth charted by the National Center for Health Statistics. The rate of pregnancy loss depends on the degree to which losses at very early gestations are detected.
3 Includes all persons of Hispanic origin of any race.

Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates by Outcome: Estimates for the United States, 1976-96, series 21, No. 56. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/series/sr21/pre-31/pre-31.htm



http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/104_numbers_and_rates_of_pregnancies_live.html

These tables are based on figures supplied by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Commerce and are subject to revision by the Census Bureau.

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