1A. PREGNANCIES BY PREGNANCY OUTCOME, ETHNICITY, AND AGE GROUP
Figure1A-1
Pregnancy, Fertility, andAbortionRates
a
byOutcome andYear among Females
of ChildbearingAges (15?44 years)
,
Arizona, 2003 - 2013
Note:
a
All rates per 1,000 females in specified age group.
Rate is a measure of the frequency of
some event (such as pregnancy, or live
birth) in relation to a unit of population
during a specified time period such as a
year; events in the numerator of the
year occur to individuals in the
denominator. The pregnancy rate
decreased from 77.9 pregnancies per
1,000 females of childbearing age in
2012 to 76.8/1,000 in 2013 (
Figure
1A-1
,
Table1A-1
).
The fertility rate (the number of births
per 1,000 women of childbearing age)
also decreased from 67.2/1,000 in 2012
to 66.0/1,000 in 2013. The fertility rate
in 2013 was 17.5 percent lower than
the recent high of 2006.
The abortion rate (the number of
abortions per 1,000 women of
childbearing age) remained unchanged
at 13.0 in 2012 and 2013. The stability
in the abortion rate from 2011 through
2013 reflects consistent abortion
reporting procedures maintained over
the past three years.
It is important to note that the number
of females aged 15-44 years estimated
in 2013 (n = 1,286,456) was higher
than in 2012 (n= 1,274,871).
Figure1A-2
Percent Change from2010 to2013 in theNumber of Pregnancies by
Woman?sRace/Ethnicity, Arizona
Overall, pregnancies in Arizona
decreased 0.2 percent from 2010 to
2013. While the overall number of
pregnancies remained stable over this
period, the number of pregnancies
across these years varied by
race/ethnicity.
American Indian females (8.0 percent)
and White non-Hispanic females (7.2
percent) experienced the greatest
percent decrease in number of
pregnancies from 2010 to 2013 (
Figure
1A-2
,
Table 1A-1
). Pregnancies
among Hispanic females decreased 1.3
percent from 2010 to 2013, while the
number of pregnancies for Asian
females (0.7 percent) and Black females
(2.3 percent) both increased over this
period.
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Arizona Health Status and Vital Statistics 2013
