TOPEKA — The 2014 Annual Summary of Vital Statistics is now available. The report contains information on births, deaths, marriages, divorces and more, according to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment.
Among the highlights for 2014:
- The state’s infant mortality rate has decreased from 6.4 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2013 to 6.3 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2014.
- The rate for Black non-Hispanic mothers was 10.3 deaths per 1,000 live births, a
- 32.7 percent decrease from the 2013 rate of 15.3.
- Teen pregnancy numbers decreased by 6.5 percent, from 3,335 in 2013 to 2,118 in 2014.
- The pregnancy rate for mothers under 20 years of age was 16 per 1,000 females. This is the lowest pregnancy rate for this age-group in the past 20 years, down from a peak of 34.5 in 1995.
- Pneumonia and influenza resulted in an age-adjusted mortality rate of 18 deaths per 1,000 population, down from 20 in 2013.
- The number of births to Kansas residents was 39,193, an increase of 1 percent from 2013. The state’s birth rate increased to 13.5 per 1,000 population from 13.4 in 2013.
- The state’s population increased by 0.3 percent in 2014 to 2,904,021.
- Geary, Pottawatomie and Riley Counties had the largest relative increases in population from 2010 to 2014 with respective changes of: 7.4 percent, 6.5 percent and 5.7 percent
You can access the full Annual Report of Vital Statistics on our website here: http://www.kdheks.gov/hci/annsumm.html