It is expected to decline to 2.5 births by 2010.
It's not that she's in favour of it: "I'm increasingly dubious about births by insemination anyway.
In 2012, every hospital and maternity ward became obliged to report births by girls under 15.
In 2010, the number of births by Hispanic women fell below the number of births by white women for the first time in seven years, and it continued to fall at least through February, according to state statistics.
Still, that is far short of the Millennium target of 100 deaths per 100,000 live births by 2015.
In 1963, about 175 children under five were dying per 1,000 live births; by 2011, that figure had fallen to less than 73.
Folic acid supplements taken for a year before pregnancy can cut the risk of premature births by 70% and save thousands of lives, researchers have found.
Dr. Shivji said that after the bonnethead birth was reported, keepers at the Belle Isle Aquarium in Detroit reported similar virgin births by white spotted bamboo sharks.
The sustainable development goals aim to reduce the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100,000 live births by 2030.
Researchers in Norway based the conclusion on a study of births by almost 500,000 women over a 20-year period.
Either sooner through fewer births by contraception and (non-coercive) population policy, the "humane" way – or later through more deaths by famine, disease, war, the "natural" way.
