""A 7% decline is really quite extraordinary," says Brady Hamilton, the report's lead author, highlighting the significance of the drop in the teenage birth rate."
""The birth certificate does not allow us to address the question of why," Hamilton explains, emphasizing the limitations of birth data in understanding the factors behind declining teen birth rates."
""It gives us basically a sneak peek at some key factors that we can expect when we get the final data for that year," Hamilton notes about the provisional report's purpose."
In 2025, the U.S. teenage birth rate decreased by 7%, with approximately 126,000 births to mothers aged 15 to 19, resulting in a rate of 11.7 births per 1,000 females. This decline follows a significant drop from 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991. The overall birth rate also fell by 1%, while the cesarean delivery rate rose to 32.5%, the highest since 2013. The report lacks race or ethnicity data, which was included in previous years, but is available through the CDC's online database.
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