In January 2000, the National Center on Health Statistics (NCHS) released this report. The 48-page "Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates by Outcome" study shows a decline in pregnancy rates between 1990 and 1996 with rates in 1996 being at their lowest in twenty years. The sharpest decline was among teenagers, "with the teen pregnancy rate falling by fifteen percent from its record high in...
The Alan Guttmacher Institute (AGI) is a nonpartisan organization that provides research, policy analysis, and public education about reproductive health. Recently, the AGI posted this special statistical report on teenage pregnancy in the US. The report consists of two large data tables synthesizing pregnancy statistics from 1972 to 1996. The first table provides the number of births, number of...