The study said the birth rate for mothers 15 to 19 declined 3 percent to 49.6 births per 1,000 women in 1999 from the previous year.
Every state has a teen pregnancy prevention program.
The message has been transmitted. The 1999 rate broke a record of 50.2 births per 1,000 teen-age women set in 1986. Ventura also noted that the teen birth rate has been declining during a period when the economy was strong. After falling steadily from 1989 to 1996, the rate increased again in 1999, up 4 percent from 1998. Twenty-two percent of all births were Caesarean deliveries in 1999.