Unmarried Childbearing
(Data are for the U.S.)
- Number of live births to unmarried women: 1,641,946
- Birth rate for unmarried women: 50.6 births per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44 years
- Percent of all births to unmarried women: 38.5%
Source: Births: Final Data for 2006, Tables D and 18
More data
- Birth data
- VitalStats - Online data tool
- Number and percent of births to unmarried mothers by race and Hispanic origin, by State and Territory Births: Final Data for 2006, Table 20
- Trends in nonmarital birth rate by age, race, and Hispanic origin Births: Final Data for 2006, Table 19
- Trends in nonmarital childbearing by race and Hispanic origin, 1970-2005 Health, United States, 2008, Table 10
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