Keywords: Percent US births to unmarried women.svg en Prior to 1960 the percentage of children born in the United States to an unmarried woman was relatively constant at less than 5 but from 1960 to 2009 the percentage of children born in the United States to an unmarried women steadily increased from 5 3 to 41 and has since declined to 40 2 in 2014 Data from http //www cdc gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_12 pdf CDC 2016-05-24 own Delphi234 other versions current annually Generated with Wikimedia SVG Chart SVG Chart/box cc-zero Birth rate in the United States Marriage in the United States |