PEDIATRICS Vol. 58 No. 6 December 1976, pp. 793-799
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Annual Summary of Vital Statistics–1975

Myron E. Wegman M.D.1

1 Dean Emeritus, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

During 1975, continuing the recent general year-to-year trend, there were fewer births, deaths, and marriages and more divorces than in the previous year. Infant mortality again reached an all-time low for the country, 16.1 per 1,000 live births (Table I).

BIRTHS

Previous articles have pointed out that census bureau projections, influenced largely by the "baby boom" after the Second World War, predicted a steady increase in the number of women in the child-bearing ages (assumed to be 15 to 44 years) through 1980. In 1975 the number of women in this age group did indeed increase, by about 2%. Yet a fall in the fertility rate (Fig. 1) resulted in an actual decrease in the number of births to a projected total of 3,149,000.




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