2011 KIDS COUNT – PUERTO RICO DATA BOOK
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Key Indicators
Period
Estimated population under age 18
Puerto Rico
Municipio Number
Percent/Rate
Number
Percent/Rate
2008
484
23%
981,918
25%
Low-birth-weight babies
2008
3
20.0%
5,723
12.5%
Preterm births
2008
3
20.0%
8,929
19.5%
Cesarean births
2008
5
33.3%
22,138
48.5%
Infant mortality rate (deaths per 1,000 births)
2008
1
66.7
400
8.8
Child death rate (deaths per 100,000 children ages 1–14)
2008
0
0.0
97
13.3
Teen death rate (deaths per 100,000 teens ages 15–19)
2008
0
0.0
201
68.9
Teen birth rate (births per 1,000 females ages 15–19)
2008
4
60.6
7,991
55.8
Teens who are high school dropouts (ages 16–19)
2007–2009
n.a.
n.a.
17,338
7.3%
Teens not attending school and not working (ages 16–19)
2007–2009
n.a.
n.a.
35,854
15.0%
Children in poverty (income below $21,756 for a family of two adults and two children in 2009)
2007–2009
*
541,549
56.3%
Children who received public assistance in the past 12 months
2007–2009
*
432,267
44.1%
Median family income in the past 12 months (in 2009 inflation-adjusted dollars)
2007–2009
n.a.
Children in single-parent families
2007–2009
*
*
477,871
52.2%
Children in female-headed households
2007–2009
*
*
318,055
40.0%
* See Appendix
n.a. - Data not available Data cannot be calculated
73
*
$20,212