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Table 1.  Pregnancy Outcomes of Residents by Woman's Age, 2007
  Total           Live Births                 Abortions            Fetal Deaths     
Age Pregnancies Number Percent1 Number Percent1 Number Percent1
State Total 114,149 88,921 77.9 24,735 21.7 493 0.4
Under 15 196 89 45.4 107 54.6 0 0.0
15-19 12,015 7,427 61.8 4,538 37.8 50 0.4
15-17 3,958 2,217 56.0 1,722 43.5 19 0.5
18-19 8,057 5,210 64.7 2,816 35.0 31 0.4
20-24 29,303 21,044 71.8 8,163 27.9 96 0.3
25-29 31,374 25,530 81.4 5,730 18.3 114 0.4
30-34 24,232 20,903 86.3 3,219 13.3 110 0.5
35-39 13,565 11,357 83.7 2,137 15.8 71 0.5
40-44 3,122 2,366 75.8 739 23.7 17 0.5
45 and Over 258 183 70.9 71 27.5 4 1.6
Unknown 84 22 26.2 31 36.9 31 36.9
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, 2007
  Female Pregnancy Birth Abortion Abortion
Age Population Rate Rate Rate Ratio2
All Ages3 1,339,756 85.2 66.4 18.5 278.2
Under 15 212,805 0.9 0.4 0.5 1202.2
15-19 227,762 52.8 32.6 19.9 611.0
        15-17 137,767 28.7 16.1 12.5 776.7
        18-19 89,995 89.5 57.9 31.3 540.5
20-24 228,506 128.2 92.1 35.7 387.9
25-29 219,325 143.0 116.4 26.1 224.4
30-34 203,063 119.3 102.9 15.9 154.0
35-39 227,227 59.7 50.0 9.4 188.2
40-44 233,873 13.3 10.1 3.2 312.3
45 and Over 251,343 1.0 0.7 0.3 388.0
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, 11/2008.
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