{"id":3238,"date":"2016-09-19T16:15:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T19:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2016-09-19T16:15:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T19:15:08","slug":"births-in-the-united-states-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2016\/09\/19\/3238\/","title":{"rendered":"Births in the United States, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db258.pdf\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/images\/databriefs\/251-300\/db258_fig1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"442\" height=\"330\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An NCHS\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db258.pdf\">report<\/a> presents several key demographic and maternal and infant health indicators using 2015 final birth data.<\/p>\n<p>Trends in general fertility rates, age-specific birth rates, cesarean and low-risk cesarean delivery, and preterm birth rates are presented.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There were 3.978 million births in the United States in 2015, down less than 1% from 2014.<\/li>\n<li>The 2015 U.S. general fertility rate (births per 1,000 women aged 15\u201344) was down 1% from 2014.<\/li>\n<li>Birth rates dropped in 2015 to record lows among women under age 30 and rose for those aged 30\u201344.<\/li>\n<li>The cesarean delivery rate declined to 32.0% of births in 2015; the preterm birth rate rose slightly to 9.63% from 2014 to 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An NCHS\u00a0report presents several key demographic and maternal and infant health indicators using 2015 final birth data. Trends in general fertility rates, age-specific birth rates, cesarean and low-risk cesarean delivery, and preterm birth rates are presented. Findings: There were 3.978 million births in the United States in 2015, down less than 1% from 2014. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,47317],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238"}],"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=3238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}