National vital statistics reports : from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System
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Objectives-This report presents preliminary U. S. data on deaths, death rates, life expectancy, leading causes of death, and infant mortality for 2008 by selected characteristics such as age, sex, race, and Hispanic origin. Methods-Data in this report are based on death records comprising more than 99 percent of the demographic and medical files for all deaths in the United States in 2008. ⋯ From 2007 to 2008, age-adjusted death rates decreased significantly for 6 of the 15 leading causes of death: Diseases of heart, Malignant neoplasms, Cerebrovascular diseases, Accidents (unintentional injuries), Diabetes mellitus, andAssault (homicide). From 2007 to 2008, age-adjusted death rates increased significantly for 6 of the 15 leading causes of death: Chronic lower respiratory diseases; Alzheimer's disease; Influenza and pneumonia; Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome and nephrosis; Intentional self-harm (suicide); and Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease. Life expectancy decreased by 0.1 year from 77.9 years in 2007 to 77.8 in 2008.
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Objectives-This report presents preliminary data for 2009 on births in the United States. U. S. data on births are shown by age, live-birth order, race, and Hispanic origin of mother. ⋯ The number of births and birth rates declined for all race and Hispanic origin groups in 2009. c The birth rate for U. S. teenagers 15-19 years fell 6 percent to 39.1 per 1,000, a record low for the United States. c Birth rates for younger and older teenagers and for Hispanic, non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Asian or Pacific Islander teenagers all reached historic lows in 2009. c The birth rates for women in their early 20s fell (7 percent, the largest percentage decline for this age group since 1973), as did the rates for women in their late 20s and 30s; the birth rate for women in their early 40s increased in 2009. c The birth rate for unmarried women declined almost 4 percent to 50.6 per 1,000 aged 15-44. The number of nonmarital births fell 2 percent to 1,693,850 in 2009, the first decline since 1996-1997. c The percentage of births to unmarried women, however, continued to increase in 2009. c The cesarean delivery rate rose to 32.9 percent in 2009, another record high. c The preterm birth rate declined for the third straight year to 12.18 percent of all births. c The LBW rate was essentially unchanged between 2008 and 2009 at 8.16 percent in 2009 but is down from 2006.