Final Birth Statistics for 2006

The CDC released their final analysis of birth data for 2006. Here are a few of the statistics they highlight in the report.

A total of 4,265,555 births were registered in the United States in 2006, 127,206 more births (or 3 percent higher) than in 2005. According to Table 5 in the report, the total breaks down into the following ethnic groups:
718,146 births to Mexican women in America (a 3.6% increase compared to 2005)
66,932 births to Puerto Rican women (a 5.7% increase compared to 2005)
16,936 births to Cuban women in America (a 5.4% increase compared to 2005)
165,321 births to women in America that are from Central and South America (a 9.3% increase compared to 2005)
71,742 births to women of other Hispanic origin in America (a 16.3% increase compared to 2005)
617,247 births to Black women (5.7% increase compared to 2005)
2,308,640 to White women (a 1.3% increase compared to 2005)

The number of births to teenagers aged 15-19 was 414,593 in 2005 and 435,436 in 2006.

The number of births to girls under the age of 15 was 6,722 in 2005 and 6,396 in 2006. In 2006, 98% of the 6,396 births in this group were to teens aged 13-14. 100 girls under the age of 15 gave birth to their second child, and 5 girls gave birth to their third child before the age of 15.

For college-aged women, age 20-24, 1,080,437 gave birth in 2006. About half of these college aged women had their first birth (518,540), while 359,744 gave birth for a second time, 143,499 gave birth for the third time, and 40,472 gave birth for the fourth time.

The above statistics include women that are married!
Table 18 in the CDC report shows percent of births to UNmarried women:
Under 15 years of age: 98.3% (a few under age 15 are married!)
Age 15: 96.8% unmarried births (3.2% married)
Age 16: 93.3% unmarried (6.7% married)
Age 17: 90.0% unmarried (10.0% married)
Age 18: 84.4% unmarried (15.6% married)
Age 19: 77.8% unmarried (22.2% married, almost 1/4)
Age 20-24: 57.9% unmarried (42.1% married)
Age 25-29: 31.0% unmarried (69% married)

The number of births outside marriage (for women aged 15-44) was 8% higher in 2006 than it was in 2005 and 20% higher than it was in 2002. The proportion of all births to unmarried women reached 38.5% of all U.S. births in 2006, up from 36.9% in 2005.