Last year, there were 45.8 births for every 1,000 women age 15 to 19.
In southern Asia, the adolescent birth rate dropped from 88 to 50 births for every 1,000 girls.
A decade ago, there were an average of 55 births for every 1,000 Ryazan women under age 20.
There were, on average, 15.1 births for every 1,000 New Yorkers.
At last count, in 1996, deaths had outpaced births for four years in a row.
It is similar to ovarian tissue freezing, which has already produced live births for women undergoing the procedure.
He has also banned local hospitals, starting on New Year's Day, from scheduling any more births for mainland mothers.
Women at the clinics said they felt safer, having traded risky home births for at least some medical care.
The regions covered by that exemption, they say, average nearly 130 male births for every 100 females.
But critics have raised questions about the Wax Paper's methodology; the study included unplanned accidental home births, for instance.
The net loss in births for the period from 1932 to 1936 has been 1,000,000 babies.
