According to a report, between 2005 and 2006, the birth rate for teenagers aged 15-19 went up 3 percent, from 40.5 live births per 1,000 females aged 15-19 in 2005 to 41.9 births per 1,000 in 2006.
Prior to this trends, there was a 14-year downward trend in which the teen birth rate fell by 34 percent from its peak of 61.8 births per 1,000 in 1991.
The fist time the teen birth rate in the United States rose since 1991 was in 2006 as well as unmarried childbearing which soared.
