Transcription of National Vital Statistics Reports
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National VitalStatistics ReportsVolume 70, Number 2 March 23, 2021 Births: Final Data for 2019by Joyce A. Martin, , Brady E. Hamilton, , Michelle Osterman, , and Anne K. Driscoll, , Division of Vital StatisticsAbstractObjectives This report presents 2019 data on births according to a wide variety of characteristics. Trends in fertility patterns and maternal and infant characteristics are described and Descriptive tabulations of data reported on the birth certificates of the million births that occurred in 2019 are presented. Data are presented for maternal age, live-birth order, race and Hispanic origin, marital status, tobacco use, prenatal care, source of payment for the delivery, method of delivery, gestational age, birthweight, and plurality.
decreased to 31.7% in 2019 ( Figure 1). Medicaid was the source of payment for 42.1% of all births in 2019. The preterm birth rate rose for the fifth straight year to 10.23% in 2019; the rate of low birthweight was essentially unchanged from 2018 at 8.31%. Twin and triplet and higher-order multiple birth rates both declined in 2019 compared ...
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