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Table 1.  Pregnancy Outcomes of Residents by Woman's Age, 2006
  Total           Live Births                 Abortions            Fetal Deaths     
Age Pregnancies Number Percent1 Number Percent1 Number Percent1
State Total 112,125 86,845 77.5 24,790 22.1 490 0.4
Under 15 169 82 48.5 86 50.9 1 0.6
15-19 11,604 7,108 61.3 4,450 38.3 46 0.4
15-17 3,728 2,062 55.3 1,654 44.4 12 0.3
18-19 7,876 5,046 64.1 2,796 35.5 34 0.4
20-24 28,995 20,680 71.3 8,214 28.3 101 0.3
25-29 30,777 24,938 81.0 5,720 18.6 119 0.4
30-34 23,600 20,303 86.0 3,191 13.5 106 0.4
35-39 13,434 11,097 82.6 2,258 16.8 79 0.6
40-44 3,209 2,434 75.8 752 23.4 23 0.7
45 and Over 254 160 63.0 92 36.2 2 0.8
Unknown 83 43 51.8 27 32.5 13 15.7
1 Percents are the number of live births, abortions, or fetal deaths out of total pregnancies for specific age group.
Table 2.  Age Specific Rates1 and Abortion Ratios of Residents, 2006
  Female Pregnancy Birth Abortion Abortion
Age Population Rate Rate Rate Ratio2
All Ages3 1,325,991 84.6 65.5 18.7 285.5
Under 15 214,191 0.8 0.4 0.4 1048.8
15-19 223,862 51.8 31.8 19.9 626.1
        15-17 135,266 27.6 15.2 12.2 802.1
        18-19 88,596 88.9 57.0 31.6 554.1
20-24 224,223 129.3 92.2 36.6 397.2
25-29 210,526 146.2 118.5 27.2 229.4
30-34 203,109 116.2 100.0 15.7 157.2
35-39 225,095 59.7 49.3 10.0 203.5
40-44 239,176 13.4 10.2 3.1 309.0
45 and Over 249,933 1.0 0.6 0.4 575.0
1 Age-Specific rates equal the number of pregnancies, births, or abortions occurring to women in a specific age group per 1,000 female population in that age group.  
For "Under 15" and "45 and over" the denominators for the age-specific rates are limited  to the female populations aged 10-14 and 45-49, respectively.
2 The abortion ratio equals the number of abortions per 1,000 live births.
3 For the category, "All Ages", rates equal total pregnancies, births, or abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 (child-bearing ages).
Population Data:  See Appendix A: Technical Appendix, Sources of data: Population.
Source:  Center for Health Statistics, Washington State Department of Health, 12/2007.
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