Temporal Trends in Pregnancy Rate, Live Birth Rates, and Rates of Gestational Outcomes, 2012–2023
Shalmali Bane, Fei Xu, Susanna Mitro, Heather Forquer, Jennifer M. Baker, Catherine Lee, Mara Greenberg, Michael Kuzniewicz, Monique Hedderson · 2026
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Birth patterns in the United States have shifted over the past decade, and Bane and co-authors chart the change inside one large health system. They track more than 700,000 pregnancies from 2012 to 2023, computing pregnancy and live birth rates per thousand people aged 15 to 44, plus outcomes such as miscarriage, stillbirth, and ectopic pregnancy.
Adjusted pregnancy rates fell about ten percent and live birth rates about fourteen percent over the period. Miscarriage, molar, and ectopic rates also eased, stillbirth stayed flat, and induced abortion rose about twenty-seven percent. The authors say the wider drop in births than in pregnancies is largely explained by the rise in abortions.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Shalmali Bane, Fei Xu, Susanna Mitro, Heather Forquer, Jennifer M. Baker, Catherine Lee, Mara Greenberg, Michael Kuzniewicz, Monique Hedderson |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 28 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |