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The source for the data on U.S. births, birth rates, and fertility rates in this section is the National Vital Statistics Reports series published by the National Center for Health Statistics, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report issued on Dec. 21, 2010, showing preliminary birth data for 2009 also highlighted these findings:
The birth rate for women 20–24 years declined 7% in 2009, to 96.3 births per 1,000 women from 103.0 in 2008, the largest decline in this rate since 1973. The number of births to women in this group also declined in 2009 (4%). The rate for women aged 25-29 years declined in 2009 as well, down 4% to 110.5 births per 1,000 women from 115.1 in 2008. The number of births to women aged 25–29 years decreased by 2% in 2009. The birth rate for women aged 30–34 years declined 2% in 2009 to 97.7 births per 1,000 women from 99.3 in 2008. The number of births to women in this age group declined slightly in 2009. The rate for women aged 35–39 years also declined in 2009, down 1 percent to 46.6 births per 1,000, from 46.9 in 2008. This marks a two year decline in the rate for this group which had been increasing since 1978. The number of births to women aged 35-39 years decreased 3% in 2009. The birth rate for women aged 40–44 years rose in 2009, the only age group to do so, up 3% from 9.8 births per 1,000 women in 2008 to 10.1, the highest rate since 1967. The rate for women aged 45–49 years (which includes births to women aged 50 years and over) was unchanged in 2009 at 0.7 births per 1,000 women. The number of births to women aged 40–44 years decreased slightly in 2009 whereas births to women aged 50 years and over increased by 4%.
The preterm birth rate, declined in 2009 for the third straight year to 12.18% of all births, from 12.33% in 2008. The percentage of infants born preterm (less than 37 completed weeks of gestation) had risen by more than 1/3 from 1981 to 2006, but is down 5% from 2006. The lower preterm rate for 2009 marks the first sustained (more than 2 consecutive years) decline in this rate since 1981 when national gestational age data first became available.
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