Table 21a. Number of live births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, by race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1990–2007

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Table 21a.

Number of live births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19, by race/ethnicity: Selected years, 1990–2007

Year	Total	White		Black		Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native
1990	59.9	42.5		116.2		100.3	26.4	81.1
1991	61.8	43.4		118.2		104.6	27.3	84.1
1992	60.3	41.7		114.7		103.3	26.5	82.4
1993	59.0	40.7		110.5		101.8	26.5	79.8
1994	58.2	40.4		105.7		101.3	26.6	76.4
1995	56.0	39.3		97.2		99.3	25.5	72.9
1996	53.5	37.6		91.9		94.6	23.5	68.2
1997	51.3	36.0		88.3		89.6	22.3	65.2
1998	50.3	35.3		85.7		87.9	22.2	64.7
1999	48.8	34.1		81.0		86.8	21.4	59.9
2000	47.7	32.6		79.2		87.3	20.5	58.3
2001	45.3	30.3		73.5		86.4	19.8	56.3
2002	43.0	28.5		68.3		83.4	18.3	53.8
2003	41.6	27.4		64.7		82.3	17.4	53.1
2004	41.1	26.7		63.1		82.6	17.3	52.5
2005	40.5	25.9		60.9		81.7	17.0	52.7
2006	41.9	26.6		63.7		83.0	17.0	55.0
2007¹	42.5	27.2		64.3		81.7	17.3	59.0
— Not available. ¹ Data are preliminary. NOTE: The race categories White and Black exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity and the categories Asian/Pacific Islander and American Indian/Alaska Native include persons of Hispanic ethnicity. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 57, no. 12, Births: Preliminary Data for 2007, National Center for Health Statistics, 2009.