{"id":7530,"date":"2024-01-05T11:00:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2024-01-04T19:18:11","modified_gmt":"2024-01-04T19:18:11","slug":"quickstats-rate-of-triplet-and-higher-order-multiple-births-by-age-of-mother-national-vital-statistics-system-united-states-1998-and-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/01\/05\/7530\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Rate of Triplet and Higher-Order Multiple Births by Age of Mother \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1998 and 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm725253a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/figures\/mm72523a6-F.gif?_=98569\" alt=\"Rate of Triplet and Higher-Order Multiple Births by Age of Mother \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, United States, 1998 and 2022\" width=\"455\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The triplet and higher-order multiple birth rate declined from an all-time high of 193.5 per 100,000 total births in 1998 to 78.9 in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>From 1998 to 2022, triplet and higher-order birth rates increased among mothers aged &lt;20 years (from 17.6 to 27.5) but declined among mothers aged \u226520 years.<\/p>\n<p>In both 1998 and 2022, triplet and higher-order multiple birth rates were lowest among mothers aged &lt;20 years and highest among mothers aged \u226540 years (517.6 in 1998 and 179.0 in 2022) but differences across the age groups narrowed from 1998 to 2022.<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data, 1998 and 2022.\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\/72\/wr\/mm725253a6.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/72\/wr\/mm725253a6.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The triplet and higher-order multiple birth rate declined from an all-time high of 193.5 per 100,000 total births in 1998 to 78.9 in 2022. From 1998 to 2022, triplet and higher-order birth rates increased among mothers aged &lt;20 years (from 17.6 to 27.5) but declined among mothers aged \u226520 years. In both 1998 and 2022,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7531,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47309,63673,63678,63681,47317,53752,53751],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530"}],"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=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7532,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions\/7532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}