{"id":7220,"date":"2022-12-16T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T09:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7220"},"modified":"2022-12-15T20:06:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T20:06:10","slug":"quickstats-birth-rates-for-females-aged-15-19-years-by-state-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2022\/12\/16\/7220\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Birth Rates for Females Aged 15\u201319 Years, by State \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7150a8.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/figures\/mm7150a8-F.gif?_=43387\" alt=\"Map of Teen Births Aged 15-19 by State\" width=\"470\" height=\"343\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2021, the U.S. birth rate for females aged 15\u201319 years was 13.9 births per 1,000 persons, with rates generally lower in the Northeast and higher across the southern states.<\/p>\n<p>Birth rates among females aged 15\u201319 years ranged from 5.4 in New Hampshire, 5.7 in Massachusetts, and 6.4 in Vermont to 26.5 in Arkansas and 25.6 in Mississippi.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data, 2021.\u00a0<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\/71\/wr\/mm7150a8.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/71\/wr\/mm7150a8.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2021, the U.S. birth rate for females aged 15\u201319 years was 13.9 births per 1,000 persons, with rates generally lower in the Northeast and higher across the southern states. Birth rates among females aged 15\u201319 years ranged from 5.4 in New Hampshire, 5.7 in Massachusetts, and 6.4 in Vermont to 26.5 in Arkansas and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7221,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,47317,63768,54842,63784,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220"}],"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\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7222,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7220\/revisions\/7222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}