Rates of triplet births and higher dropped 62 percent from 1998 to 2023
- Posted on January 6, 2025
- By Washington Post
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Rates of triplet births and higher dropped 62 percent from 1998 to 2023
The period that preceded the current study, 1980 to 1998, saw an extraordinary five-fold increase in births of triplets and higher-order multiple births — from 37 per 100,000 births in 1980 to 194 births per 100,000 in 1998.
