Interpreting the recent dramatic decrease in American teen pregnancy rates
January 4, 2023
Ryan Burge — pastor, author and statistician — frequently shares intriguing research data on his Twitter account. On Nov. 19, Burge tweeted a graph showing the dramatic decrease in the amount of recorded U.S. teen pregnancies with the caption, “Can we just celebrate for a minute how much the teen birth rate has dropped since 1991?”
The data show a 75% reduction in the teen birth rate since 1991.
