Trends in Pregnancies and Pregnancy Rates by Outcome: Estimates for the United States, 1976-96

This report presents comprehensive information on pregnancies and pregnancy rates in the United States. The study incorporates birth, abortion, and fetal loss data to compile national estimates of pregnancy rates according to characteristics such as age, race and Hispanic origin, and marital status. Trends and variations in pregnancy rates are described and interpreted. Summary data on pregnancies by age are presented for 1976–96; 1996 is the most recent year for which abortion data by age are available. Pregnancy estimates by age, race and Hispanic origin, and by marital status, race, and Hispanic origin are shown for 1995, the latest year for which national abortion data are available by these characteristics.