![Brooklyn_Babies Kings County has the highest fertility rate of any county in New York State. These expectant fathers put the finishing touches on the diapered babies in Brooklyn in 1947. (Image Courtesy: AP)](http://thebrooklynink.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/AP471121034.jpg)
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
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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 |
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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%
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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 |
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7,062 | African American | |
4,782 | Jewish/Hebrew | |
3,636 | Chinese | |
3,624 | American | |
2,627 | Mexican | |
ADULT PREGNANCIES
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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
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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 |
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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
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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.
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