Years	Number of births out of wedlock	in % to total number of live births
1970	5200	3.4
1971	7705	5.3
1972	8084	5.9
1973	8315	6.0
1974	8206	5.9
1975	7423	5.2
1976	7407	5.0
1977	7307	5.0
1978	6761	4.5
1979	4770	3.1
1980	4669	3.0
1981	2318	1.4
1982	2544	1.6
1983	3764	2.2
1984	4491	2.6
1985	4641	2.6
1986	4625	2.5
1987	5391	2.9
1988	5141	2.8
1989	4548	2.5
1990	4800	2.6
1991	7137	3.8
1992	8002	4.4
1993	8692	5.0
1994	8263	5.2
1995	8375	5.8
1996	8830	6.8
1997	9664	7.3
1998	6126	4.9
1999	7567	6.4
2000	6282	5.4
2001	7318	6.6
2002	8421	7.6
2003	11882	10.5
2004	26669	20.3
2005	26050	18.4
2006	22029	14.8

Live births by unmarried women for urban and rural places by 1990-2005 years

Years	Number of births out of wedlock		in % to total number of live births
	urban places	rural places	urban places	rural places
1990	3057	1743	3.6	1.8
1991	4637	2500	5.2	2.5
1992	4922	3080	5.8	3.2
1993	5155	3537	6.3	3.8
1994	5056	3207	6.8	3.8
1995	4815	3560	7.4	4.5
1996	4686	4144	8.4	5.6
1997	5371	4293	9.4	5.7
1998	3651	2475	6.9	3.5
1999	4294	3273	8.6	4.9
2000	3841	2441	7.7	3.6
2001	4282	3036	8.6	5.0
2002	4453	3968	9.0	6.5
2003	5720	6162	11.2	9.9
2004	10784	15885	18.3	21.9
2005	11108	14942	17.3	19.3
2006	10371	11658	14.7	14.9

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