About This Source
"This dataset reports statistics for births occurring within the United States to U.S. residents. Data are available by a variety of demographic characteristics, such as state and county of mother's residence, mother's race, and mother's age, and health and medical items. The data are derived from birth certificates issued in years 1995-2021." In accordance with the CDC, birth counts of 9 or fewer or birth rates based on counts of nine or fewer are not displayed. https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/natality.html
"In the United States, State laws require birth certificates to be completed for all births, and Federal law mandates national collection and publication of births and other vital statistics data. The National Vital Statistics System, the Federal compilation of this data, is the result of the cooperation between the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) and the States to provide access to statistical information from birth certificates." (source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm)
"Standard forms for the collection of the data and model procedures for the uniform registration of the events are developed and recommended for State use through cooperative activities of the States and NCHS." (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/births.htm)
Live births in the United States, 1995-2021; does not include stillbirths Confidentiality constraints: "vital statistics data are suppressed due to confidentiality constraints, in order to protect personal privacy." (more information: https://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/help/natality.html#Additional)
Data is publicly available on the CDC WONDER online database.