In 2020, there were more than 3,613,600 births in the United States. The four-state Southwestern U.S. region accounted for 514,663 births in 2020, or about 14% of all births in the U.S. that year. With 12.01 births per 1,000 population, the Southwestern U.S. regional birth rate was 9.5% higher than the national average birth rate. Further examination of state-level data from the National Center for Health Statistics, a unit of the CDC, provides the following details about birth rates in the Southwestern U.S.:
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Birth Rates in the Southwestern U.S. |
State | Births | Population | Birth Rate* |
Arizona | 76,947 | 7,421,401 | 10.37 |
New Mexico | 21,903 | 2,106,319 | 10.40 |
Oklahoma | 47,623 | 3,980,783 | 11.96 |
Texas | 368,190 | 29,360,759 | 12.54 |
Region | 514,663 | 42,869,262 | 12.01 |
U.S. | 3,613,647 | 329,484,123 | 10.97 |
(*) number of births per 1,000 population
Report Period: 2020
Source: CDC Wonder. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. National Vital Statistics System, Natality on CDC WONDER Online Database. Data are from the Natality Records 2016-2020, as compiled from data provided by the 57 vital statistics jurisdictions through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. Accessed on August 5, 2022
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