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Birth Rate by Year, New Jersey and the United States, 1990 to 2022
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Why Is This Important?
Tracking birth rate patterns among New Jersey and U.S. residents as a whole is critical to understanding population growth and change in this country and in New Jersey.
Definition
Number of live births in a given year per 1,000 persons in the population
Data Notes
Confidence limits are not available for U.S. data.Data Sources
- Birth Certificate Database, Office of Vital Statistics and Registry, New Jersey Department of Health
(https://www.nj.gov/health/vital/) - Bridged-race population estimates, National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/bridged_race.htm) - Natality public-use data, CDC WONDER On-line Database, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(https://wonder.cdc.gov/natality.html)
How the Measure is Calculated
Numerator:
Number of live birthsDenominator:
Estimated number of persons in population