By Audrey Yoo

Strollers are everywhere in Brooklyn. So the Ink decided to see how the borough stacks up when it comes to babies.

	FERTILE GROUND
73.8	Brooklyn’s 2008 fertility rate (number of live births per 1,000 females aged 15-44)
61.2	New York State’s average fertility rate in the same year
16.3	Brooklyn’s 2008 birth rate (number of live births per 1,000 people regardless of sex and age) – the second highest in the state
16.5	New York State’s highest birth rate in the Bronx
	NEW BABIES
33%	of all newborns in New York City in 2009 were born in Brooklyn
41,803	Number of newborns in Brooklyn in 2009
35.6%	of all Brooklyn newborns were born in the following neighborhoods: Borough Park (5,275), Williamsburg and Greenpoint (3,423), Crown Heights (3,143), and Sunset Park (3,041)
	MOST COMMON ANCESTRIES OF NEW MOTHERS IN 2009
7,062	African American
4,782	Jewish/Hebrew
3,636	Chinese
3,624	American
2,627	Mexican
	ADULT PREGNANCIES
130.4	women out of 1,000 female Brooklynites of childbearing age were pregnant in 2008
20-34	Age range in which most pregnancies occurred
	TEENAGE PREGNANCIES
7,341	teenage girls aged 15 to 19 delivered a baby in Kings County in 2008
82	out of 1,000 teenage Brooklynites were pregnant in 2008 – the second highest in the state
109.1	The state’s highest teenage pregnancy rate in the Bronx
41.5	National teenage pregnancy rate
59%	of Brooklyn’s teenage pregnancies in 2008 resulted in induced abortion
2,718	Teenage pregnancies resulted in live births and 255 in spontaneous fetal deaths
	BORN OUT-OF-WEDLOCK
42.2%	of all babies delivered in Brooklyn were born to unmarried mothers in 2009
41%	National percentage of babies born to unmarried mothers
	BIRTH FACILITIES & PAYMENT
78%	of all live births in Brooklyn took place in hospitals in 2009
7,741	babies were born in Maimonides Medical Center
95	babies were born at the Brooklyn Birthing Center
274	babies were born at home
64%	of all live births were paid by Medicaid in 2008
32%	of all live births were paid by private insurance companies

Sources: New York State Department of Health Vital Statistics of NYS 2008, Summary of Vital Statistics 2009 The City of New York, National Vital Statistics Reports.