"Live births and total fertility rates by race/ethnicity of mother, 1990 to 1997"																				
																				
Race/ethnicity		19901	19912	19922	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001							
US																				
	Number of live births	"4,158,212"	"4,110,907"	"4,065,014"	"4,000,240"	"3,952,767"	"3,889,589"	"3,891,494"	"3,880,894"	"3,941,553"	"3,959,417"	"4,058,814"	"4,025,933"							
	Total fertility rate	2.081	2.073	2.065	2.046	2.036	2.019	2.027	2.033	2.059	2.075	2.130	2.115							
																				
Non-Hispanic white																				
	Number of live births	"2,626,500"	"2,589,878"	"2,527,207"	"2,472,031"	"2,438,855"	"2,382,638"	"2,358,989"	"2,333,363"	"2,361,462"	"2,346,450"	"2,362,968"	"2,326,578"							
	Total fertility rate	1.851	1.827	1.811	1.793	1.792	1.787	1.796	1.801	1.837	1.850	1.879	1.853							
																				
																				
Non-Hispanic black																				
	Number of live births	"661,701"	"666,758"	"657,450"	"641,273"	"619,198"	"587,781"	"578,099"	"581,431"	"593,127"	"588,981"	"604,346"	"589,917"							
	Total fertility rate	2.548	2.551	2.514	2.455	2.365	2.245	2.204	2.211	2.236	2.213	2.256	2.191							
																				
Hispanic																				
	Number of live births	"595,073"	"623,085"	"643,271"	"654,418"	"665,026"	"679,768"	"701,339"	"709,767"	"734,661"	"764,339"	"815,868"	"851,851"							
	Total fertility rate	2.960	3.003	3.043	3.021	3.014	3.020	3.048	3.000	2.948	2.985	3.108	3.165							
																				
American Indian																				
	Number of live births	"39,051"	"38,841"	"39,453"	"38,732"	"37,740"	"37,278"	"37,880"	"38,572"	"40,272"	"40,170"	"41,872"	"41,668"							
	Total fertility rate	2.183	2.169	2.19	2.141	2.08	2.034	2.03	2.048	2.091	2.057	2.101	2.075							
																				
Asian/Pacific Islander																				
	Number of live births	"141,635"	"145,372"	"150,250"	"152,800"	"157,632"	"160,287"	"165,776"	"169,769"	" 172,652 "	" 180,776 "	" 200,543 "	" 200,279 "							
	Total fertility rate	2.003	1.956	1.942	1.936	1.943	1.924	1.907	1.926	1.868	1.927	2.073	2.034							

1 New Hampshire and Oklahoma did not collect data on Hispanic origin in 1990.																				
2 New Hampshire did not collect data on Hispanic origin in 1991 or 1992.																				
																				
Sources: 																				
																				
"National Center for Health Statistics, “Births: Final Data for 1997,” by S.J. Ventura et al.,   "																				
"National Vital Statistics Report 47, no. 18 (1999)."																				
																				
"National Center for Health Statistics, “Births: Final Data for 2001,” by J.A. Martin et al.,   "																				
"National Vital Statistics Report 51, no. 2 (2002)."