The Big Picture
In 2006, 750,000 women younger than 20 became pregnant. The pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15–19, and pregnancies occurred among about 7% of women in this age-group.
This report contains teenage pregnancy, birth and abortion statistics, with national estimates through 2006, and state-level estimates through 2005.
From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, pregnancy rates among teenagers and young women in the United States increased by about 21% among all women younger than 20, and by 17% among women aged 20-24.
For the first time since the early 1990s, overall rates of pregnancy and birth among teenagers and young women increased from 2005 to 2006. There are large and long-standing disparities in rates by race and by state.
