TABLE A6. LIVE BIRTHS TO UNMARRIED MOTHERS
AND PERCENT OF TOTAL LIVE BIRTHS IN SPECIFIED GROUP,
BY AGE AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 2000
NUMBER PERCENT
AGE OF NON- NON-
MOTHER TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
TOTAL 20,272 5,102 15,170 46.0 21.7 73.9
UNDER 15 233 30 203 98.7 100.0 98.5
15-19 6,554 1,823 4,731 81.6 57.7 97.1
20-24 8,295 1,969 6,326 55.7 27.6 81.4
25-29 3,197 743 2,454 28.5 10.7 56.9
30-34 1,272 336 936 19.9 7.9 43.2
35-39 590 170 420 21.8 9.7 43.5
40-44 129 30 99 23.4 9.6 41.4
45-49 1 1 0 6.2 8.3 -
UNKNOWN 1 0 1
TABLE A7. LIVE BIRTHS, PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION, FERTILITY RATES, AND
MEDIAN AGE OF MOTHER, BY TOTAL-BIRTH ORDER AND RACE OF MOTHER
MISSISSIPPI, 2000
MEDIAN AGE
TOTAL- NUMBER PERCENT FERTILITY RATE** OF MOTHER
BIRTH NON- NON- NON- NON-
ORDER* TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE TOTAL WHITE WHITE
TOTAL 44,075 23,540 20,535 100.0 100.0 100.0 69.4 65.0 75.2 24.6 26.0 23.0
FIRST 15,003 8,486 6,517 34.0 36.0 31.7 23.6 23.4 23.9 21.3 23.0 19.8
SECOND 13,429 7,511 5,918 30.5 31.9 28.8 21.2 20.8 21.7 24.6 26.3 22.8
THIRD 8,519 4,342 4,177 19.3 18.4 20.3 13.4 12.0 15.3 26.4 28.1 24.8
FOURTH 3,950 1,839 2,111 9.0 7.8 10.3 6.2 5.1 7.7 27.6 29.3 26.0
FIFTH 1,747 772 975 4.0 3.3 4.7 2.8 2.1 3.6 28.8 30.6 27.6
SIXTH 744 320 424 1.7 1.4 2.1 1.2 0.9 1.6 29.8 31.8 28.7
SEVENTH 331 130 201 0.8 0.6 1.0 0.5 0.4 0.7 31.0 33.5 30.2
EIGHTH 153 57 96 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.2 0.2 0.4 32.0 32.4 31.7
NINTH 75 28 47 0.2 0.1 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 34.7 35.6 34.3
TENTH &
OVER 79 37 42 0.2 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.2 36.8 36.5 37.4
UNKNOWN 45 18 27 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 # 0.1
* INCLUDES ALL LIVE BIRTHS PLUS ALL FETAL DEATHS REGARDLESS OF LENGTH OF GESTATION.
** LIVE BIRTHS PER 1,000 FEMALES 15-44 YEARS OF AGE.
# LESS THAN 0.06.
