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TABLE 9:
Highlights:
Tab 9
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- Out of the 40,376 live births in 2001, only 1,079 or 2.7% were multiple births.
- Of all live births in 2001:
- Almost all (97.3%) were singletons (39,297)
- One twin was born out of every 38 live births (1,049 twins)
- A triplet was born once in 1,346 live births (30 triplets)
- There were no quadruplets born in B.C. in 2001
- Older mothers, 35 years of age or older, had the highest proportion of multiple births; 286 births or 3.6% of live births to these mothers were multiple births. The 761 multiple births to mothers aged 20 to 34 years accounted for 2.5% of births to mothers in this age group. The lowest proportion of multiple births was to teenage mothers; the 32 twins born to teenage mothers accounted for 1.8% of births to mothers in this age group.
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