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近年美国的人口出生率持续走低 Fertility rates in the United States are continuing their decades-long decline, due in large part to a steep slide in teenage pregnancies down to historic lows, according to a new government report released recently. 美国政府近期发布的工作报告指出，美国的人口出生率几十年来持续走低，很大程度上是由于青少年怀孕率大幅下滑至历史新低的缘故。 ? The National Center for Health Statistics said the pregnancy rate of 102 pregnancies out of every 1,000 women is 12 percent below the 1990 peak of about 116 per 1,000. Only once in the past 30 years, 1997, has it been lower, and only marginally, the center said. ? Since 1990, the report said, pregnancy r