Prices in 2007 for non-Hispanic white teenagers ranged from 4.3 to 1000 15 to 19 years in the District of Columbia to 54.8 in Mississippi, for adolescents non-Hispanic blacks, the rates ranged from 17.4 to 1000 in Hawaii to 95.1 in Wisconsin, and Hispanic adolescents, ranging from 31.1 to 188.3 rates in Maine, Alabama.The National Campaign to prevent teen pregnancy and unplanned teenage pregnancies has more.

Birth rates and Hispanic state and composition of the population of states by race and Hispanic origin both contribute to changes in the birth rate was among teenagers, which continued.

The overall birth rate for U.S. teens aged 15 to 19 was 41.5 per 1,000 in 2008, according to the U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System.

SOURCE: U. S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, October 20, 2010

Although the birth rate among teenagers has declined nationally and in 14 states from 2007 to 2008, the birth rate for the United States remain significantly higher than in other Western countries, the study authors said. There was a broad consensus on the goal of preventing teenage pregnancy, and a wide range of public and private programs have been developed to meet this challenge. Variations in teenage birth rates reflect differences in many factors, including differences in socioeconomic factors such as education and income, risk behaviors such as sexual activity and contraceptive use and attitudes toward adolescent pregnancy and maternity.

But birth rates among adolescents from less than 25 per 1000 in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont to more than 60 per 1000 in Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas. In general, the lowest rates are in the Northeast and Midwest, while the highest rates were highest in the south.

In 2008, as in previous years, birth rates among teenagers were consistently higher in countries throughout South and South-West, and lowest in the upper Midwest and Northeast, the researchers wrote.

Birth rates among teenagers in the United States have declined over the past two decades, but there are variations in rates was still significant, ranging from less than 2.5 % to 6 %, according to a study on the federal government Wednesday.