2011 KIDS COUNT – Puerto Rico Data Book

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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

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