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Birth and Fertility Rates In 2005, for the third year in a row, birth rates for females ages 15 to 19 fell below rates for older women ages 35 to 39... > View Indicator Teen Births After declining in each year between 1991 and 2005, the birth rate for females ages 15 to 19 increased 3 percent from 40.5 births per 1,000 females in 2005 to 41.9 in 2006...> View Indicator Teen Pregnancy Pregnancy rates among adolescent females have fallen steadily during the past decade, from 116.3 per 1,000 female teens ages 15 to 19 in 1990 to 84.5 per 1,000 female teens in 2000, the lowest rate reported since 1976... > View Indicator Teen Abortion The abortion rate among teens ages 15 to 17 has declined by 45 percent since 1990, from 26.5 abortions per 1,000 teen females in 1990 to 14.5 abortions per 1,000 teen females in 2000... > View Indicator Percentage of Births to Unmarried Women The percentage of births to unmarried women has steadily increased in the past few decades, from 5.3 percent in 1960 to 36.8 percent in 2005... > View Indicator Late or No Prenatal Care The percentage of births to women receiving late or no prenatal care declined from 6.1 percent in 1990 to 3.6 percent by 2004 (preliminary estimate)... > View Indicator Mothers Who Smoke While Pregnant The percentage of births to women who reported smoking during pregnancy dropped substantially during the 1990s, from 19.5 percent in 1989 to 10.2 percent in 2004 (preliminary estimate). However, over one-quarter of those with a low level of education (nine to eleven years of education) reported smoking during pregnancy in 2003, the most recent year for which those data are available...> View Indicator Low and Very Low Birthweight Infants In 2005, 8.2 percent of all newborns were low birthweight (less than 5.5 pounds), the highest percentage since the early 1970s...> View Indicator Life Expectancy The life expectancy of newborns has increased by seven years since 1970, to a record high of 77.8 years in 2004. However, life expectancy for black newborns is still five years less than life expectancy for white newborns (73.1 versus 78.3 years, respectively), although the difference in 2004 was the smallest ever recorded...> View Indicator
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