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New York City Birth Rate Plunges
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| Last Edited | Imperator Dec 22, 2006 01:17pm |
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| News Date | Friday, December 22, 2006 07:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The city's newest release of vital statistics — an annual compendium of deaths, births, disease, and accidents — shows that 122,725 babies were born in New York City in 2005, or 1,374 fewer than in 2004.
City health officials say the birth rate, a tally of the number of births per 1,000 people, dropped nearly 8% in the last decade and mirrors the national trend toward smaller families started later in life.
"Families are having fewer children," the deputy commissioner for epidemiology at the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Lorna Thorpe, said. "That is a nationwide trend and we're seeing it here in New York City."
The health department is also attributing the drop to the dramatic decline in the number of girls younger than age 20 having babies. In 1992, teenage girls had 13,795 of the 136,002 babies born in the city, while in 2005 they had 8,579 of the 122,725 born. In other words, the overall births declined, but teen births declined more steeply.
The city's population forecasters say that even with the birth rates, which have steadily declined since peaking in 1990, the number of people living in the city is still expected to soar over the next two and a half decades.
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The number of reported abortions in the city was down to a low in the past 10 years, to 88,891 in 2005 from 91,673 in 2004.
Of the city's births in 2005, 52% of them were paid for by Medicaid, the government health program for the poor. Of women giving birth in New York City, 44% were unmarried. |
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