Vital Statistics of the United States

Annual reports that present detailed vital statistics data, including natality, mortality, marriage and divorce. These reports are available for download. Some are available as bound volumes in many large public and university libraries.

• 1980-2003
• 1965-1979
• 1939-1964
• 1890-1938

Two special volumes that present trends in rates for vital statistics data.

• Vital Statistics in the United States, 1940-1960. 887 pp. [PDF - 56.7 MB]
• Vital Statistics in the United States, 1900-1940. 1,053 pp. [PDF - 79.9 MB]