{"id":4650,"date":"2019-10-11T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchstats.com\/?p=4650"},"modified":"2019-10-11T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T20:11:59","slug":"quickstats-birth-rates-for-teens-aged-15-19-years-by-age-group-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1991-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2019\/10\/11\/4650\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Birth Rates for Teens Aged 15\u201319 Years, by Age Group \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1991\u20132018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6840a7.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/figures\/mm6840a7-F.gif\" width=\"447\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The birth rate for teens aged 15\u201319 years declined from a peak of 61.8 per 1,000 females in 1991 to a record low of 17.4 in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The rate has declined more rapidly since 2007. From 2007 to 2018, the rate declined from 21.7 to 7.2 for teens aged 15\u201317 years and from 71.7 to 32.3 for teens aged 18\u201319 years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> NCHS, National Vital Statistics System. Birth Data, 1991\u20132018. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6840a7.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/68\/wr\/mm6840a7.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The birth rate for teens aged 15\u201319 years declined from a peak of 61.8 per 1,000 females in 1991 to a record low of 17.4 in 2018. The rate has declined more rapidly since 2007. From 2007 to 2018, the rate declined from 21.7 to 7.2 for teens aged 15\u201317 years and from 71.7 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,47317,53752,54842,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650"}],"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=4650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}