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UPI,  Feb 27, 2012
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Twin Births Multiply in the United States

In 2009, one in every 30 infants born was a twin. Does that sound like a lot? It is, when you compare it to 1980, when only one in every 53 babies born was a twin.

According to a new CDC report, "Three Decades of Twin Births in the United States, 1980–2009," the twin birth rate rose 76 percent from 1980 through 2009, from 18.9 to 33.3 per 1,000 births. Before that, the incidence of multiple births had remained at about 2 percent of all births from the year 1915 through the 1970s.

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