This Line graph shows the rates of teen pregnancies, birth and abortion rates in the United States between the 1990’s and 2010 around the ages of 15-19. This line graphs shows the increase and decreases every 5 years for 1000 women between ages 15-19. Teen pregnancy hits its peak in 1991 at about 115,000 it slowly decreased about 45% later on.
According to the article in 2010, about 614,000 pregnancies occurred among teenagers 15–19, for a rate of 57.4 pregnancies per 1,000 women that age. That marked a 51% decline from the peak of 1990, and a 15% decline in two years, from 67.8 in 2008, according to “U.S. Teenage Pregnancies, Births and Abortions, 2010: National and State Trends by Age, Race and Ethnicity.
