Unmarried Childbearing
(Data are for the U.S.)
- Number of live births to unmarried women: 1,693,658
- Birth rate for unmarried women: 50.5 births per 1,000 unmarried women aged 15-44 years
- Percent of all births to unmarried women: 41.0%
Source: Births: Final Data for 2009, table C [PDF - 1.3 MB]
More data
- Birth data
- Changing patterns of nonmarital childbearing in the United States [PDF - 660 KB]
- Number and percent of births to unmarried mothers by race and Hispanic origin, by State and Territory Births: Final Data for 2009, table 15 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- Trends in nonmarital birth rate by age, race, and Hispanic origin Births: Final Data for 2009, table 16 [PDF - 1.3 MB]
- Trends in nonmarital childbearing by race and Hispanic origin Health, United States, 2011, table 7 [PDF - 9.8 MB]
- VitalStats - Online data tool
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