Utah's teen birthrate ranks 18th in nation
The total teenage birthrate in Utah is 34 per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19. Among the 15-17 year olds, the birthrate was 16.4 per 1,000, and for those 18-19, it was 58.5. Overall, Utah was No. 18 among the states for teenage birthrate. Mississippi had the highest rate, at 68.4. The national teenage birthrate was 41.9 per 1,000.
The report is based on data from the year 2006, the most recent that is available. It says that in 2006, 53,504 live births occurred in Utah, which counts all moms, not just teen moms. Utah had the lowest percentage of live births to unmarried women, at 10,071, or 18.8 percent. The highest percentages were in Louisiana, Mississippi and New Mexico (between 50 and 53 percent).
The mean age when Utah women had a first child was 23.9 years of age. Massachusetts' first-time moms were the oldest, 27.7, while the youngest were in Mississippi, 22.6.
Not surprisingly, Utah had the highest crude birthrate, at 21 per 1,000 total population, quite different from Vermont at the other extreme, with 10.4. Those two were also at the extremes of the fertility rates, with Utah's high of 94.1 and Vermont's low of 52.2 per 1,000 women aged 15-44 years.
Utah and Idaho have the lowest percentage of deliveries by C-section (less than 23 percent), while Florida and New Jersey have the highest (more than 36 percent).
Utah was also the best in terms of very low birth weight, classed as less than 1500 grams or 3.3 pounds, along with Oregon and Washington (1 percent). The worst rates were in Louisiana, Mississippi and the District of Columbia.
The study also said that 80.2 percent of Utah moms began receiving prenatal care in the first trimester, but 3.9 percent had late or no prenatal care.
The entire report is online at www.cdc.gov.
E-mail: Lois@desnews.com
Recent comments
I had the same thought as MC,,,,,,,,,,,do they count them??????
Lynne | Jan. 9, 2009 at 4:58 p.m.
Wow, in a world as complex as ours, with a myriad of variables to...
Re: Is that all? | Jan. 8, 2009 at 2:23 p.m.
Kinda blows that ignorant theory out of the water, now doesn't it?
@ Is that all? | Jan. 8, 2009 at 1:58 p.m.
- Weak retail sales in June 8:21 p.m.
- Truck drags WVC police officer 8:19 p.m.
- Programs helps polygamy groups 8:13 p.m.
- Cottonwood Mall waiting for recovery 8:11 p.m.
- Man charged in stabbing 8:10 p.m.
- Westminster a good place to work 8:09 p.m.
- More charges against 'Hipster Grifter' 8:08 p.m.
- Man faces 4 counts of child sex abuse 8:07 p.m.
- Odd Fellows Hall move 6:13 p.m.
- Man charged in child sexual assault 5:43 p.m.
- Blazers may offer Millsap a contract
- Utah's top 10: Wealth of recreation
- Restaurant burns in 3-alarm fire
- MWC, WAC rushed into BCS
- O'Connor unhappy Fes not with team
- Send Boozer to the Bulls?
- Keeping golf light on the wallet
- Teen injured in fall from waterfall
- Fatigued Jazz no match for Pacers
- River flow marks birth of sanctuary
- Bronco collecting a galaxy of recruits
138 - Letters: Palin mistreated
136 - Teachers struggle with district cuts
134 - Blazers may offer Millsap a contract
118 - 'Tea party' protesters unhappy
107 - Fairness of BCS debated
81 - Stadium of Fire lights up the 4th
79 - Chaffetz eyes challenging Bennett
72 - Millsap not franchise player
70 - Services bids farewell to Jackson
70
As more and more dads are put out of work in this economy, I've been...
The night was balmy though buggy at SPOC, the Stansbury Park Observatory...
ANYONE SEE THAT OKUR GOT 2 YEAR EXTENSION? I DID!!!! GO TO ESPN!
The free market should have been left alone to sort out the winners and...
Sounds to me like Portland in trying to bend the Jazz over backwards. Making...
Keep underestimating Cottonwood. We will see you in the championship. ...
Those Old school ideas have been around atleast 6 thousands years, in not...
Koufus is a ton better than I ever thought he would be. And he is still a...
someone comment on my trade on page 1, its the best!!! I WANT TO KNOW YOUR...
It's killing young people. I work at IMC and many of our patients on...
O'Conner keeps his job and future decisions continue to give headaches to the...
We didn't have a problem scoring when Boozer was out half the season we had a...

