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According to the analysis of provisional birth certificate data, nearly 126,000 babies were born to mothers aged 15 to 19 last year.
The birth rate for that group declined 7 percent from the year before.
The report's lead author, Brady Hamilton, calls that drop extraordinary.
He's a statistician demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics.
Last year, the teen birth rate was 11.7 births per 1,000 female teens.
That's down from a rate of 61.8 in the early 90s.
Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
According to the analysis of provisional birth certificate data, nearly 126,000 babies were born to mothers aged 15 to 19 last year.
The birth rate for that group declined 7 percent from the year before.
The report's lead author, Brady Hamilton, calls that drop extraordinary.
He's a statistician demographer with the National Center for Health Statistics.
Last year, the teen birth rate was 11.7 births per 1,000 female teens.
That's down from a rate of 61.8 in the early 90s.
Selina Simmons-Duffin, NPR News.
These rates for the teens have dropped to historic levels.
And in fact, they've gone to historic levels