Key Statistics from the National Survey of Family Growth

 

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• Teenagers - See also Sex education and Teen pregnancy
• Teen pregnancy - See also Teenagers
• Tubal sterilization - See Sterilization (female)

 

Teenagers

See also Sex education and Teen pregnancy

• Percent of never-married teenagers 15-19 years of age who ever had intercourse by age and sex: United States, 1995, 2002, and 2006-2010

  Female	1995	2002	2006-2010
  15-19 years of age	49.3%	45.5%	42.6%
  15-17 years of age	38.0%	30.3%	27.0%
  18-19 years of age	68.0%	68.8%	62.7%

   

  Male	1995	2002	2006-2010
  15-19 years of age	55.2%	45.7%	41.8%
  15-17 years of age	43.1%	31.3%	28.0%
  18-19 years of age	75.4%	64.3%	63.9%

   

  Source: Series 23, No. 31, Table 1 [PDF - 723 KB]

   

• Percent distribution of teenaged females 15-19 years of age by type of relationship with partner at first intercourse, 2002 and 2006-2010

	2002	2006-2010
Just met/just friends	14.0%	15.7%
Going out one in a while	6.6%	8.6%
Going steady	74.6%	69.8%
Cohabitating, engaged, or married	3.7%	2.6%

 

Source: Series 23, No. 31, Table 4 [PDF - 723 KB]

 

Teen pregnancy

See also Teenagers

• Number of teen pregnancies among females 15-19 years of age, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2005:

  	1990	1995	2000	2002	2005
  Estimated pregnancies	1,017,000	903,000	834,000	757,000	724,000
  Live births	522,000	500,000	469,000	425,000	415,000
  Induced abortions	351,000	263,000	235,000	215,000	196,000
  Fetal losses	145,000	140,000	129,000	117,000	114,000

   

• Teen pregnancy rate among females 15-19 years of age, 1990, 2000, 2002, and 2005:
  • 1990: 116.8 pregnancies per 1,000 females
  • 2000: 84.8 pregnancies per 1,000 females
  • 2002: 76.0 pregnancies per 1,000 females
  • 2005: 70.6 pregnancies per 1,000 females

   

  NOTE: The overall teenage pregnancy rate declined 7 percent from 2002 to 2005 and 40 percent from 1990 to 2005. The 2005 rate is an historic low for the nation.

   

  Source: Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. Estimated pregnancy rates for the United States, 1990-2005: An update. National vital statistics report, Vol. 58, No 4. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2009. (Tables 2 and 3)