{"id":3027,"date":"2015-12-23T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3027"},"modified":"2015-12-23T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T19:02:36","slug":"births-final-data-for-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2015\/12\/23\/3027\/","title":{"rendered":"Births: Final Data for 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_12.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/vaccinesafety\/images\/concerns-sids.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"184\" height=\"123\" \/><\/a>NCHS has released a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr64\/nvsr64_12.pdf\">new report<\/a> that\u00a0presents 2014 data on U.S. births according to a wide variety of characteristics.<\/p>\n<p>Data are presented for maternal age, live-birth order, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, attendant at birth, method of delivery, period of gestation, birthweight,and plurality.<\/p>\n<p>Birth and fertility rates are presented by age, live-birth order, race and Hispanic origin, and marital status.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In 2014, 3,988,076 births were registered in the United States, up 1% from 2013.<\/li>\n<li>The general fertility rate rose slightly to 62.9 per 1,000 women aged 15\u201344, the first increase in the rate since 2007.<\/li>\n<li>The teen birth rate fell 9% from 2013 to 2014, to 24.2 per 1,000 females aged 15\u201319.<\/li>\n<li>Birth rates declined for women in their early 20s but increased for women aged 25\u201339.<\/li>\n<li>The total fertility rate (estimated number of births over a woman\u2019s lifetime) rose slightly to 1,862.5 births per 1,000 women.<\/li>\n<li>The birth rate for unmarried women declined for the sixth straight year.<\/li>\n<li>The cesarean delivery rate declined to 32.2%.<\/li>\n<li>The preterm birth rate declined 1% to 9.57%, but the low birthweight rate was essentially unchanged at 8%.<\/li>\n<li>The 2014 twin birth rate was 33.9 per 1,000 births, a new high for the United States; the triplet and higher-order multiple birth rate dropped 5% to 113.5 per 100,000 total births.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NCHS has released a new report that\u00a0presents 2014 data on U.S. births according to a wide variety of characteristics. Data are presented for maternal age, live-birth order, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, attendant at birth, method of delivery, period of gestation, birthweight,and plurality. Birth and fertility rates are presented by age, live-birth order, race<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53749,63678,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3027\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}