Unmarried
Childbearing
(Data
are for U.S. for year indicated)
Number of
live births to unmarried women: 1,527,034
Birth rate
for unmarried women: 47.5 births per 1,000
unmarried women aged 15-44 years
Percent of
all births to unmarried women: 36.9
Source: Births:
Final Data for 2005, Tables C and 18
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Number and percent
of births to unmarried mothers by race and Hispanic origin,
by State and Territory Births:
Final Data for 2005, Table 20
Trends
in nonmarital birth rate by age, race, and Hispanic origin
Births:
Final Data for 2005, Table 19
Trends
in nonmarital
childbearing by race and Hispanic origin, 1970-2004
Health, United States, 2007, Table 10
Related links
National
Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
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March 13, 2008
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