Unmarried Childbearing

• Number of live births to unmarried women: 1,464,455
• Fertility rate for unmarried women: 37.8 births per 1,000 unmarried women ages 15–44
• Percent of all births to unmarried women: 40.0%

Source: Births: Final Data for 2021, tables 9 and 10 [PDF – 1 MB]

• Vital Statistics downloadable public use data files
• National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)