TABLE 1—
Stillbirth Rates (per 1000 Births), by Age, Period, and Central Maternal Birth Cohort: United States, 1981 to 2000
| Maternal Age, y | ||||||||
| Period | 15–19 | 20–24 | 25–29 | 30–34 | 35–39 | 40–44 | 45–49 | Birth Cohort |
| Black women | ||||||||
| ↗ 31.5 | 1933 | |||||||
| ↗ 22.4 | ↗ 23.2 | 1937 | ||||||
| ↗ 14.6 | ↗ 19.8 | ↗ 36.3 | 1943 | |||||
| ↗ 10.8 | ↗ 12.6 | ↗ 17.6 | ↗ 27.0 | 1947 | ||||
| ↗ 8.8 | ↗ 9.8 | ↗ 12.4 | ↗ 12.9 | 1953 | ||||
| ↗ 8.3 | ↗ 8.6 | ↗ 9.9 | ↗ 9.6 | 1957 | ||||
| ↗ 8.8 | ↗ 8.2 | ↗ 8.2 | ↗ 7.6 | 1963 | ||||
| 1981–1985 | ↗ 8.1 | ↗ 7.3 | ↗ 6.8 | 1967 | ||||
| 1986–1990 | ↗ 7.7 | ↗ 6.9 | 1973 | |||||
| 1991–1995 | ↗ 6.9 | 1977 | ||||||
| 1996–2000 | ||||||||
| White women | ||||||||
| ↗ 25.8 | 1933 | |||||||
| ↗ 14.0 | ↗ 19.1 | 1937 | ||||||
| ↗ 8.3 | ↗ 10.8 | ↗ 14.3 | 1943 | |||||
| ↗ 5.6 | ↗ 6.1 | ↗ 8.8 | ↗ 11.3 | 1947 | ||||
| ↗ 4.8 | ↗ 4.4 | ↗ 5.5 | ↗ 6.5 | 1953 | ||||
| ↗ 5.1 | ↗ 4.0 | ↗ 4.0 | ↗ 4.3 | 1957 | ||||
| ↗ 6.1 | ↗ 4.4 | ↗ 3.7 | ↗ 3.2 | 1963 | ||||
| 1981–1985 | ↗ 5.3 | ↗ 4.1 | ↗ 3.1 | 1967 | ||||
| 1986–1990 | ↗ 4.8 | ↗ 3.5 | 1973 | |||||
| 1991–1995 | ↗ 4.3 | 1977 | ||||||
| 1996–2000 | ||||||||
Note. The arrows on the diagonal, from lower left in the first column to upper right in the last column under “maternal age,” indicate the period during which when the birth occurred, and the horizontal rows represent the progression of the maternal birth cohort.