{"id":3189,"date":"2016-08-19T10:45:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:45:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3189"},"modified":"2016-08-19T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:45:56","slug":"quickstats-birth-rates-among-teens-aged-15-19-years-by-racehispanic-ethnicity-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2007-and-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/08\/19\/3189\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Birth Rates Among Teens Aged 15\u201319 Years, by Race\/Hispanic Ethnicity \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2007 and 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/mm6532a6.htm?s_cid=mm6532a6_e\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/65\/wr\/figures\/m6532qsf.gif\" width=\"440\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From 2007 to 2015, the birth rate for female teens aged 15\u201319 years declined 46%, from 41.5 to 22.3 births per 1,000, the lowest rate ever recorded for this population in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, rates declined to record lows for all racial\/ethnic populations, with declines ranging from 41% for non-Hispanic white teens to 54% for Hispanic teens.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the declines, teen birth rates by race\/Hispanic ethnicity continued to reflect wide disparities, with rates ranging from 6.9 per 1,000 for Asian or Pacific Islander teens to 34.9 for Hispanic teens in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From 2007 to 2015, the birth rate for female teens aged 15\u201319 years declined 46%, from 41.5 to 22.3 births per 1,000, the lowest rate ever recorded for this population in the United States. In 2015, rates declined to record lows for all racial\/ethnic populations, with declines ranging from 41% for non-Hispanic white teens to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,53752,54842],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189"}],"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=3189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}