12.6
2024 (latest)
TEEN BIRTH RATE
births per 1,000 females aged 15–19 · 1960–2024 · lower is better · CDC/NCHS National Vital Statistics System (Health, United States + Data Query System)
89.1
1960
89.1
high · 1960
12.6
low · 2024
−86%
since 1960
┊ dashed lines mark 1979 Oil shock & inflation peak · 1987 Black Monday crash · 1991 Gulf War recession · 2001 Dot-com bust & 9/11 · 2008 Global financial crisis · 2020 COVID-19 pandemic
Method & caveats. Live births to women aged 15–19 per 1,000 women in that age group. 1960–2018 from the Health, United States table of birth rates by age of mother; 2016 onward from the NCHS Data Query System; the three overlap years agree exactly. The 1991 peak (61.8) and the steady fall since are as published.
Sources
Every value on this page is read from the publisher below. Current and historical source documents:
- https://data.cdc.gov/d/daba-4vfq
- https://data.cdc.gov/d/e8kx-wbww
- https://github.com/danielmiessler/substrate/tree/main/Data/US-Societal-Health
Data
| Year | Teen Birth Rate | Change |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 12.6 | −4% |
| 2023 | 13.1 | −4% |
| 2022 | 13.6 | −2% |
| 2021 | 13.9 | −7% |
| 2020 | 15.0 | −10% |
| 2019 | 16.7 | −4% |
| 2018 | 17.4 | −7% |
| 2017 | 18.8 | −7% |
| 2016 | 20.3 | −9% |
| 2015 | 22.3 | −8% |
| 2014 | 24.2 | −9% |
| 2013 | 26.5 | −10% |
| 2012 | 29.4 | −6% |
| 2011 | 31.3 | −8% |
| 2010 | 34.2 | −15% |
| 2009 | 40.2 | +0% |
| 2008 | 40.2 | −3% |
| 2007 | 41.5 | +1% |
| 2006 | 41.1 | +4% |
| 2005 | 39.7 | −2% |
| 2004 | 40.5 | −1% |
| 2003 | 41.1 | −4% |
| 2002 | 42.6 | −5% |
| 2001 | 45.0 | −6% |
| 2000 | 47.7 | −2% |
| 1999 | 48.8 | −3% |
| 1998 | 50.3 | −2% |
| 1997 | 51.3 | −4% |
| 1996 | 53.5 | −4% |
| 1995 | 56.0 | −4% |
| 1994 | 58.2 | −1% |
| 1993 | 59.0 | −2% |
| 1992 | 60.3 | −2% |
| 1991 | 61.8 | +3% |
| 1990 | 59.9 | +5% |
| 1989 | 57.3 | +8% |
| 1988 | 53.0 | +5% |
| 1987 | 50.6 | +1% |
| 1986 | 50.2 | −2% |
| 1985 | 51.0 | +1% |
| 1984 | 50.6 | −2% |
| 1983 | 51.4 | −2% |
| 1982 | 52.4 | +0% |
| 1981 | 52.2 | −2% |
| 1980 | 53.0 | +1% |
| 1979 | 52.3 | +2% |
| 1978 | 51.5 | −2% |
| 1977 | 52.8 | +0% |
| 1976 | 52.8 | −5% |
| 1975 | 55.6 | −3% |
| 1974 | 57.5 | −3% |
| 1973 | 59.3 | −4% |
| 1972 | 61.7 | −4% |
| 1971 | 64.5 | −6% |
| 1970 | 68.3 | +4% |
| 1969 | 65.5 | −0% |
| 1968 | 65.6 | −3% |
| 1967 | 67.5 | −4% |
| 1966 | 70.3 | −0% |
| 1965 | 70.5 | −4% |
| 1964 | 73.1 | −5% |
| 1963 | 76.7 | −6% |
| 1962 | 81.4 | −8% |
| 1961 | 88.6 | −1% |
| 1960 | 89.1 | — |
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