Table 1
Birth Rates (Births per 1,000) for Males and Females Ages 10-19, Selected Years 1960-2006*
  1960 1970 1980 1986 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
15-19 Year-old Females 89.1 68.3 53.0 50.2 59.9 61.8 60.3 59.0 58.2 56.0 53.5 51.3 50.3 48.8 47.7 45.3 43.0 41.6 41.1 40.5 41.9
   
Race/Ethnicity  
White  - - 45.4 42.3 50.8 52.6 51.4 50.6 50.5 49.5 47.5 45.5 44.9 44.0 43.2 41.2 39.4 38.3 37.7 37.0 -
White, non-Hispanic - - 41.2 - 42.5 43.4 41.7 40.7 40.4 39.3 37.6 36.0 35.3 34.1 32.6 30.3 28.5 27.4 26.7 25.9 26.6
Black - - 97.8 95.8 112.8 114.8 111.3 107.3 102.9 94.4 89.6 86.3 83.5 79.1 77.4 71.8 66.6 63.8 63.3 62.0 -
Black, non-Hispanic - - - - 116.2 118.2 114.7 110.5 105.7 97.2 91.9 88.3 85.7 81.0 79.2 73.5 68.3 64.7 63.1 60.9 63.7
Hispanic1 - - 82.2 - 100.3 104.6 103.3 101.8 101.3 99.3 94.6 89.6 87.9 86.8 87.3 86.4 83.4 82.3 82.6 81.7 83.0
Mexican - - - - 108.0 108.3 105.1 103.6 109.2 115.9 112.2 103.4 96.4 94.3 95.4 95.4 94.5 93.2 95.5 93.4 -
Puerto Rican - - - - 101.6 111.0 106.5 104.9 99.6 82.8 76.5 68.9 76.2 74.0 82.9 82.2 61.4 60.8 62.6 63.3 -
Asian or Pacific Islander - - - - 26.4 27.3 26.5 26.5 26.6 25.5 23.5 22.3 22.2 21.4 20.5 19.8 18.3 17.4 17.3 17.0 16.7
American Indian - - - - 81.1 84.1 82.4 79.8 76.4 72.9 68.2 65.2 64.7 59.9 58.3 56.3 53.8 53.1 52.5 52.7 54.7
   
Marital status  
Married 530.6 443.7 349.5 351.8 420.2 410.0 394.5 384.1 346.0 357.0 338.5 319.0 315.4 308.0 287.8 286.0 283.6 - - - -
Unmarried 15.3 22.4 27.6 32.3 42.5 44.6 44.2 44.0 45.8 43.8 42.2 41.4 40.9 39.7 39.0 37.0 35.4 34.6 34.7 34.5 -
   
Live-birth order2  
First births 65.8 57.6 44.5 41.9 45.1 46.3 44.9 44.9 45.2 44.0 41.8 40.0 39.3 38.2 37.5 35.7 - - - - -
Second births 359.4 227.7 187.8 193.2 218.2 220.9 216.9 203.6 189.6 177.5 173.5 173.7 174.6 174.1 178.4 175.1 - - - - -
   
15-19 Year-old Males                                          
All Races3  - - 18.8 17.9 23.5 24.7 24.4 24.4 24.6 23.9 22.7 21.9 21.3 20.6 19.8 18.5 17.4 16.9 17.0 16.8 -
White - - 15.4 13.8 18.1 19.0 18.8 18.9 19.5 19.4 18.7 18.0 17.7 17.3 16.6 15.5 14.8 14.3 14.3 14.2 -
Black - - 40.1 42.6 55.2 57.8 57.0 56.2 54.1 49.9 46.7 45.1 42.8 41.0 39.6 36.5 33.3 32.5 32.7 32.2 -
10-14 Year-old Females 0.8 1.2 1.1 1.3 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.4 1.3 1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.8 0.7 0.6 0.7 0.7 0.6
   
Race/Ethnicity  
White  - - 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.6 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 -
White, non-Hispanic - - 0.4 - 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
Black - - 4.3 4.7 4.9 4.7 4.6 4.5 4.5 4.1 3.5 3.1 2.8 2.5 2.3 2.0 1.8 1.6 1.6 1.7 -
Black, non-Hispanic - - - - 5.0 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.6 4.2 3.6 3.2 2.9 2.6 2.4 2.1 1.9 1.6 1.6 1.7 1.6
Hispanic1 - - 1.7 - 2.4 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.6 2.6 2.4. 2.1 1.9 1.9 1.7 1.6 1.4 1.3 1.3 1.3 1.3
American Indian - - - - 1.6 1.6 1.6 1.4 1.8 1.6 1.6 1.5 1.5 1.4 1.1 1.0 0.9 1.0 0.9 0.9 0.9
Asian or Pacific Islander - - - - 0.7 0.8 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.3 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.2
15-17 Year-old Females 43.9 38.8 32.5 30.5 37.5 38.6 37.6 37.5 37.2 35.5 33.3 31.4 29.9 28.2 26.9 24.7 23.2 22.4 22.1 21.4 22.0
   
Race/Ethnicity  
White  - - 25.5 23.8 29.5 30.6 29.9 30.1 30.4 29.7 28.0 26.6 25.6 24.5 23.3 21.4 20.5 19.8 19.5 18.9 -
White, non-Hispanic - - 22.4 - 23.2 23.7 22.7 22.7 22.8 22.0 20.6 19.4 18.4 17.1 15.8 14.0 13.1 12.4 12.0 11.5 11.8
Black - - 72.5 69.3 82.3 83.6 80.6 78.9 75.2 68.6 63.4 59.4 55.5 50.7 49.0 43.9 40.0 38.2 37.2 35.5 -
Black, non-Hispanic - - - - 84.9 86.1 82.9 81.1 77.0 70.4 64.8 60.7 56.8 51.7 50.1 44.9 41.0 38.7 37.1 34.9 36.1
Hispanic1 - - 52.1 - 65.9 69.3 68.9 68.4 69.6 67.9 64.1 61.0 58.4 56.9 55.5 52.8 50.7 49.7 49.7 48.5 47.9
American Indian - - - - 48.5 52.2 52.6 51.7 48.6 44.7 42.7 41.1 39.8 36.5 34.1 31.4 30.7 30.6 30.0 30.5 30.5
Asian or Pacific Islander - - - - 16.0 16.1 15.1 15.8 15.8 15.1 14.3 13.5 13.2 11.8 11.6 10.3 9.0 8.8 8.9 8.2 8.7
   
Marital status  
Married - - - - 610.9 564.2 576.1 573.3 477.8 439.5 397.6 293.1 266.6 239.8 221.1 221.2 226.7 - - - -
Unmarried - 17.1 20.6 22.8 29.6 30.8 30.2 30.3 31.7 30.1 28.5 27.7 26.5 25.0 23.9 22.0 20.8 - 20.1 19.7 -
18-19 Year-old Females 166.7 114.7 82.1 79.6 88.6 94.0 93.6 91.1 90.2 87.7 84.7 82.1 80.9 79.1 78.1 76.1 72.8 70.7 70.0 69.9 73.0
   
Race/Ethnicity  
White  - - 73.2 70.1 78.0 83.2 83.1 81.3 81.0 80.0 77.4 74.8 73.9 72.8 72.3 70.8 68.0 66.2 65.0 64.7 -
White, non-Hispanic - - 67.7 - 66.6 70.6 69.7 67.5 67.3 65.9 63.8 61.9 60.8 59.3 57.5 54.8 51.9 50.0 48.7 48.0 49.3
Black - - 135.1 135.1 152.9 157.6 156.2 149.9 145.8 134.6 130.1 127.4 124.3 120.1 118.8 114.0 107.6