Table 1
Percentage of Newborn Males Circumcised in Hospitals, Selected Years, 1979-2003
	1979	1981	1983	1985	1987	1989	1991	1993	1995	1997	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003
Total1	64.5	64.9	63.2	59.5	58.6	58.8	61.1	59.5	64.1	62.8	61.5	62.4	63.1	60.1	55.9
Race
White	65.8	67.1	65.9	63.5	63.2	64.2	67.0	65.0	68.6	65.8	65.5	65.8	67.0	64.0	58.0
Black	57.9	60.7	58.3	55.4	55.4	56.5	59.0	56.6	63.9	67.3	64.4	69.0	65.4	69.8	62.5
Region
Northeast	66.2	66.5	69.2	65.2	68.6	63.2	62.4	65.2	68.3	68.3	65.4	64.6	66.9	69.0	64.7
Midwest	74.3	77.5	74.9	70.5	73.1	74.0	78.2	75.6	79.8	81.6	81.4	81.4	81.0	81.0	77.8
South	55.8	58.4	58.1	56.0	54.7	57.9	63.6	61.4	66.1	64.5	64.1	63.9	62.5	64.0	57.8
West	63.9	57.2	52.7	49.0	42.4	41.0	40.4	35.5	42.6	38.0	36.7	37.3	40.9	32.6	31.4
1 Total estimates presented here include all races and differ from total estimates in published reports, which only include white and black infants.
Sources: Totals and data for 2000-2003 from Child Trends' original analysis of the National Hospital Discharge Survey. Other data from National Center for Health Statistics. Trends in Circumcision Among Newborns. May 25, 2004. Tables 1 and 2.  Available at: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/circumcisions/circumcisions.htm