Chart assignment

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Read each chart, then answer its questions. Every chart shows its source and date; open it for a table of the numbers and the data to download.

  1. At what ages do American women have babies?

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At what ages do American women have babies?

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In 2024 women aged 30–34 had the highest birth rate, 93.7 births per 1,000 women, ahead of women aged 25–29 (89.5). The rate was 12.6 for teens aged 15 to 19 and 12.7 for women aged 40 to 44. 2024 is the latest year of final birth data.

Questions to discuss

  1. In one sentence of your own, what does this chart show?
  2. Find the biggest change or difference in the chart. What might explain it?
  3. Who collected these numbers, and how recent are they? What else would you want to know before drawing a conclusion?

Source: CDC National Center for Health Statistics, Health, United States (birth and fertility rates) (Public domain (U.S. government work)) · Data as of Dec 31, 2024

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