All Causes 1.82 1.76 Provisional Vital Statistics for September 1995 Live births decreased in September as 5,688 Missouri babies were born compared with 6,481 in September 1994. The birth rate decreased from 15.4 to 14.1 per 1,000 population between these two periods. For January-September births totaled 55,313 or 1.4 less than the comparable figure in 1994. There is little change in the number of Deaths between 1994 and 1995 for any of the three time periods shown in the table below. The rate of natural increase in September was 4.5 per 1,000 population.
Dissolutions of marriage show slight increases for all three time periods in the table below.
Infant deaths continue to decrease as the rate for January-September was 7.5 per 1,000 live births compared with 7.9 in 1994. The infant death rate is based on the number of infant deaths per 1000 live births. Rates a re adjusted to account for varying lengths of monthly reporting periods.