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VitalStats
A collection of vital statistics products
including tables, data files ,
and reports that allow users to access and examine vital
statistics and population data interactively.
Vital Statistics Data Available On Line
Tabulated State Data
Update to 2005
Vermont Birth Data
New Report Releases
Births:
Final Data for 2006
(1/2009)
Recent
Trends in Infant Mortality in the United States
(10 /2008 )
Estimated
Pregnancy Rates by Outcome for the United States, 1990-2004
(4 /2008 )
Press
Release
Expanded
Health Data from the New Birth Certificate, 2005
(3 /2008 )
Trends
in Spina Bifida and Anencephalus in the United States, 1991-2005
(12 /2007 )
Births:
Preliminary Data for 2006
(12/2006)
State-specific detailed tables for 2006
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish)
Births:
Final Data for 2005
(12/2006)
NOTE: Data for Vermont in 2005 are based on an incomplete file of
records. Information based on the complete file is available at
Vermont resident
births .
Recent Trends in
Teenage Pregnancy in the United States, 1990-2002
(12/2006)
Births: Preliminary Data for
2005
Births:
Preliminary Data for 2005
(11/2006)
Press
Release
Births:
Final Data for 2004
Birth and Fertility Rates for States
by Hispanic Origin Subgroups: United States, 1990 and 2000
Media Advisory
Births: Preliminary Data for
2004
Preliminary
Births for 2004: Infant and Maternal Health
Highlights
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish)
Preliminary
Births for 2004
Fact Sheet
Trends
in Cesarean Rates for First Births and Repeat Cesarean Rates for
Low-Risk Women: 1990-2003
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 55,
No. 4. 9 pp. (PHS)
2005 -1120
(9/2007)
Trend Analysis of the Sex
Ratio at Birth in the United States
(6 /2005 )
News Release
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish)
Births:
Final Data for 2003
(09/2005)
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish)
Births:
Preliminary Data for 2003
(11/2004)
Fact Sheet
Births
to 10-14 Year-Old Mothers, 1990-2002: Trends and Health Outcomes
(11/2004)
News Release
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 53, No.
7. 18 pp. (PHS)
2005 -1120
(11/2004)
Estimated
Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1990-2000: An Update
Fact Sheet
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 52, No. 23. 10 pp. (PHS)
2004 -1120
(6/2004)
Trends
in Characteristics of Births by State: 1990, 1995, and
2000-2002 (5 /2004)
Fact Sheet
Hoja
Informativa
(Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 52, No. 19. 152 pp. (PHS) 2004-1120
Reproduction Rates for
1990-2002 and Intrinsic Rates for 2000-2001: United States .
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet
in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 52, No. 17. 12 pp. (PHS)
2004 -1120
Births:
Final Data for 2002 (Fact Sheet)
H oja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish) NVSR
Vol. 52 ,
No. 10 . 114 pp. (PHS) 2004 -1120
Revised
pregnancy rates, 1990-97, and new rates for
1998-99: United States .
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet
in Spanish) NVSR Vol. 52 ,
No. 7 . 15 pp. (PHS) 2004 -1120
Revised
Birth and Fertility Rates for the 1990s and New Rates for Hispanic
Populations, 2000 and 2001: United States
(Fact Sheet)
Hoja
Informativa (Fact Sheet in Spanish)
NVSR Vol. 51,
No. 12. 94 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120
Births:
Preliminary Data for 2002 .
NVSR Vol. 51, No. 11. 20 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120
Revised
Birth and Fertility Rates for the United States, 2000 and 2001.
NVSR Vol. 51, No. 4. 19 pp. (PHS) 2003-1120
Births:
Final Data for 2001 . NVSR Vol. 51, No. 2. 103 pp. (PHS)
2003-1120
Mean
Age of Mother, 1970-2000 . NVSR Vol. 51, No. 1. 14 pp.
(PHS) 2003-1120
Births:
Preliminary Data for 2001 . NVSR Vol. 50,
No. 10. 20 pp. (PHS) 2002-1120
Teen
Births in the United States: State Trends, 1991-2000, an Update .
NVSR Vol. 50, No. 9. 4 pp. (PHS) 2002-1120
Births:
Final Data for 2000 . NVSR Vol. 50, No. 5. 104 pp. (PHS)
2002-1120
Trends
in Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean, 1991-99 .
NVSR Vol. 49, No. 13. 15 pp.
(PHS) 2002-1120
Births
to Teenagers in the United States, 1940-2000.
Vol. 49, No. 10. 24 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
Smoking
during pregnancy in the 1990s. Vol. 49, No. 7.
15 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
Births,
Marriages, Divorces, and Deaths: Provisional Data for January-December
2000. Vol. 49, No. 6. 8 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
Births: Preliminary Data for 2000. Vol. 49, No. 5. 20 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120
Trends I n Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97:
An Update. Vol. 49, No. 4. 10 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
Births:
Final Data for 1999. Vol. 49, No. 1. 102 pp.
(PHS) 2001-1120
Nonmarital
Childbearing in the United States, 1940-99.
Vol. 48, No. 16. 39 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
Variations in Teenage Birth Rates, 1991-98: National and
State Trends. Vol. 48, No. 6. 14 pp. (PHS) 2000-1120
Trends in Pregnancies and
Pregnancy Rates by Outcome: Estimates for the United States, 1976-96. Series 21,
No. 56.
60 pp. (PHS) 2000-1934
News
Releases and Fact Sheets
Teen
Birth Rate Rises for First Time in 14 Years (December
5 , 2007 )
Teen
Birth Rate Continues to Decline; African-American Teens Show Sharpest Drop --Final
2002 United States Birth Data Now Available (October
31 , 2003)
U.S.
Pregnancy Rate Down from Peak; Births and Abortions on the Decline (October
31 , 2003)
New
Report Revises Birth and Fertility Rates for the 1990s Uses 2000 Census
Population Estimates to Improve Accuracy (August
4, 2003)
U.S.
Birth Rate Reaches Record Low --Births to Teens Continue
12-Year Decline; Cesarean Deliveries Reach All-Time High (June
25, 2002)
American
Women Are Waiting to Begin Families; Average Age at First Birth up More
Than 3 Years From 1970 to 2000 --Mean Age of Mother,
1970-2000 (December
11, 2002)
HHS
Report Shows Teen Birth Rate Falls to New Record Low in 2001 --Births:
Preliminary Data for 2001. (6/6/2002)
Teen
Birth Rates Decline in all States during the 1990s --Teenage
Births in the United States: State Trends, 1991-2000, an Update. (5/30/2002)
Women
Are Having More Children, New Report Shows Teen Births Continue to Decline --Births:
Final Data for 2000. (2/12/2002)
New
CDC Report Tracks Trends in Cesarean Births and VBACs during the 1990s --Trends
in Cesarean Birth and Vaginal Birth After Previous Cesarean, 1991-99. (12/27/2001)
New
CDC Report Tracks Trends in Teen Births from 1940-2000 --Births
to Teenagers in the United States, 1940-2000 (9/25/2001)
Smoking
During Pregnancy--Rates Drop Steadily in the 1990's, but among Teen
Mothers Progress Has Stalled --Smoking during pregnancy in the
1990s (8/28/2001)
New
CDC Reports Shows Teen Birth Rate Hits Record Low;
U.S. Births Top 4 Million in 2000 --Births: Preliminary Data
for
2000 (7/24/2001)
Teen
Pregnancy Rate Reaches a Record Low in 1997 --Trends in Pregnancy Rates for the United
States, 1976-97: An Update (6/12/2001)
Higher
Order Multiple Births Drop for First Time in a Decade --Births:
Final Data for 1999 (4/17/2001)
Attendant, Place, and Timing, and Use
of Obstetric Interventions of U.S. Births Change Over Past Decade (12/2/1999)
New Guide to Help Local Communities
Establish Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs (10/25/1999)
Data
Highlights
Birth
rates by age of mother : United States 1960-99
Figure excerpted from Births: Final Data for 1999
NVSR, Vol. 49, No. 1, Figure 2
Teen
Pregnancy
Preliminary
number of live-births
Table excerpted from the Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
Preliminary number of live
births by State
Table excerpted from the Births: Preliminary Data for 2000
Live Births, Birth rates, and Fertility Rates
Table excerpted from the Report of Final Natality Statistics, 1999
Statistical Tables on Births
Tables
from Vital Statistics of the United States, 2003,
Part I, Natality
Tables
from Vital Statistics of the United States, 2002,
Part I, Natality
Tables
from Vital Statistics of the United States, 2001,
Part I, Natality
Tables
from Vital Statistics of the United States, 2000,
Part I, Natality
Tables
from Vital Statistics of the United States, 1999,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1998,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1997,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1996 ,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1995 ,
Part I, Natality
Tables from Vital Statistics of the
United States, 1994,
Part I, Natality
L ive
births, birth rates, fertility rates,
total fertility rates and birth rates for teenagers 15-19 by
age of mother,
United
States, each State and territory
Births: Final Data for
2002, table 10
Live
births by age of mother, live-birth order, and race,
United
States, each State and territory
Births: Final Data for 2002,
table 11
Live
births by Hispanic origin of mother and by race for mothers of
non-Hispanic origin: United States, each State
and territory
Births: Final Data for 2002, table 12
Methods
Revised Intercensal
Population Estimates Released
To permit
the calculation of race-specific vital rates for 2000 and beyond and for
revised vital rates for 1991-1999 (using intercensal population
estimates), the National Center for Health Statistics, in collaboration
with the National Cancer Institute and the Census Bureau, is releasing
bridged-race
estimates of the U.S. resident population .
NCHS has also released
U.S. Intercensal Population Estimates by
Specified Hispanic Origin Groups for the time period July 1, 1991 - July 1,
1999
for calculating vital rates.
2003 Revisions of the
U.S. Vital Certificates
Guide
to Completing The Facility Worksheets for the Certificate of Live Birth
and Report of Fetal Death
U.S.
Standard Birth Certificate, 2003 Revision
U.S.
Standard Birth Certificate, 1989 Revision
Instruction
Manuals
Coding
Instructions for Live Birth Records
2006
NCHS Urban-Rural Classification Scheme for Counties
To
permit calculation of vital rates by urbanization level.
Data processing
Public use data
files documentation
2004
Technical Appendix
2003
Technical Appendix
2002
Technical Appendix
2001
Technical Appendix
2000
Technical Appendix
1999
Technical Appendix
1998
Technical Appendix
1997
Technical Appendix
1996 Natality File
1996 Linked Birth/Infant Death
1995
Natality File
Micro-data
NCHS Data
Release Policy
Natality data
(births)
Linked Birth and Infant Death
Maternal and Infant Health Survey
1995-98
Matched Multiple Birth Data Set
1995-2000
Matched Multiple Birth Data Set
Publications
Special reports
National
Vital Statistics Reports (NVSR)
Trends in Twin and
Triplet Births: 1980-97, Vol. 47, No. 24. 20 pp. (PHS) 99-1120
Trends
in Pregnancy Rates for the United States, 1976-97:
An Update. Vol. 49, No. 4. 10 pp. (PHS) 2001-1120
News Release
Declines in Teenage Birth
Rates, 1991-98. Vol. 47, No. 26
News Release
Teenage Birth Rates, Vol. 47, No. 12
Smoking during pregnancy, NVSR Vol. 47, No. 10
Monthly Vital Statistics Reports
(MVSR)
Trends in Hispanic Births, MVSR Vol. 46, No. 6s
Education, MVSR Vol. 45, No. 10s
Teenage mothers, MVSR Vol. 45, No.
5s
Cesarean sections, MVSR
Vol. 45, No. 11s3
Vital and Health Statistics
Series 21 Reports
Trends in Pregnancies and
Pregnancy Rates by Outcome, Series 21, No. 56
Unmarried mothers,
Series 21, No. 53
Triplets, Series 21, No. 55
Other publications
Birth Data Errata
Links to Related Sites
DHHS Fatherhood Initiative
Teenage Pregnancy Links
Links to State Health Departments
Mortality data from the National Vital
Statistics Systems
Reproductive health links
National
Survey of Family Growth
This page last reviewed
January 07, 2009