Year Number per 1,000 Live Births 1965-01-01 211.8 1966-01-01 210.4 1967-01-01 209.1 1968-01-01 207.6 1969-01-01 205.7 1970-01-01 203.1 1971-01-01 199.7 1972-01-01 195.4 1973-01-01 190.5 1974-01-01 185.1 1975-01-01 179.4 1976-01-01 173.5 1977-01-01 167.6 1978-01-01 161.2 1979-01-01 155.3 1980-01-01 149.9 1981-01-01 145.8 1982-01-01 143.3 1983-01-01 142.8 1984-01-01 143.7 1985-01-01 145.2 1986-01-01 146.3 1987-01-01 146.5 1988-01-01 145.0 1989-01-01 142.1 1990-01-01 138.2 1991-01-01 133.7 1992-01-01 129.1 1993-01-01 124.9 1994-01-01 121.2 1995-01-01 118.1 1996-01-01 115.8 1997-01-01 113.5 1998-01-01 110.6 1999-01-01 106.5 2000-01-01 101.1 2001-01-01 94.4 2002-01-01 87.1 2003-01-01 80.2 2004-01-01 74.0 2005-01-01 69.2 2006-01-01 65.8 2007-01-01 63.4 2008-01-01 60.5 2009-01-01 58.4 2010-01-01 56.2 2011-01-01 52.9 2012-01-01 49.2 2013-01-01 46.4 2014-01-01 44.1 2015-01-01 42.0 2016-01-01 40.2 2017-01-01 38.5