Indicator Profile of Birth Rates

Why Is This Important?

Birth rate is the number of live births in a given year per 1,000 persons in the population. Tracking birth rate patterns among Utah and U.S. women as a whole is critical to understanding population growth and change in this country and in Utah.

Birth Rates, Utah and U.S., 1980-2007

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Data Notes

U.S. preliminary 2006 data are the latest available.

Data Sources

Utah Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Records and Statistics, Utah Department of Health;  National Center for Health Statistics;  National Vital Statistics System, National Center for Health Statistics, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 

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Definition

Number of live births per 1,000 population.

How We Calculated the Rates

Numerator: Number of live births.
Denominator: Number of persons in population.

Page Content Updated On 08/04/08, Published on 08/20/08
Reproductive Health Program, Bureau of Maternal and Child Health, Division of Community and Family Health Services, Utah Department of Health, Salt Lake City, UT 84114-2002, Telephone: 801-538-9970, Fax: 801-358-9409, Website: health.utah.gov/rhp, Contact: Lois Bloebaum, Email: lbloebaum@utah.gov
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Content updated: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:45:42 MDT