How many children are born out of wedlock each year?

The stats dip up and down too erratically for each year, but here is the 2004 stats: (2005 stats not compiled yet) A record number of babies were born to unwed women in the U.S. Contrary to popular belief, it isn't mostly teenagers who are giving birth out of wedlock. Teens accounted for 24% of unwed births, down from 50% in 1970 and the highest percentage was among women ages 25 - 29 years old. There were 1,470,152 babies born to unmarried mothers in the U.S. which accounted for 35.7% of all births in the country. Marcy