KDHE

TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has published the 2017 Kansas Preliminary Birth Report.

The report reveals there was a 4.1 percent decrease in births in 2017 as compared to 2016. The birth rate in Kansas is now 12.5 per 1,000 population, down from 13.1 in 2016.

The number of teen births decreased slightly from 2,126 in 2016, to 2,054 in 2017, with an overall percentage of 5.6 percent.

This report is a preliminary analysis of these data as collected by the KDHE Bureau of Epidemiology and Public Health Informatics. The full report can be viewed online at http://www.kdheks.gov/phi/download/Preliminary_Birth_Report_2017.pdf.