Here are 10 things to know about births in 2015:
1. The general fertility rate was 62.5 per 1,000 women aged 15 years to 44 years — a decrease of 1 percent from 2014.
2. The birth rate for teenagers, aged between 15 years and 19 years, fell 8 percent in 2015, to 22.3 per 1,000 females.
3. Birth rates declined for women in their 20s but increased for women in their 30s and early 40s.
4. The total fertility rate (i.e., estimated number of births over a woman’s lifetime) declined to 1,843.5 births per 1,000 women in 2015.
5. The birth rate for unmarried women declined to 43.5 per 1,000 women, the seventh consecutive rate of decline.
6. The cesarean delivery rate declined for the third year in a row to 32 percent.
7. The preterm birth rate increased slightly from 2014, to 9.63 percent in 2015.
8. The twin birth rate declined to 33.5 per 1,000 women.
9. The triplet and higher-order multiple birth rate was also down to 103.6 per 100,000 women, a 9 percent decrease from 2014.
10. The triplet and higher-order multiple birth rate is down 46 percent since 1998, when it last peaked.
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