US and UK are top in teenage pregnancy rates

Teenage pregnancy and birth rates--United States, 1990.

Teenage Pregnancy — Continued In 1990, there were an estimated 1 million pregnancies and 521,626 births to U.S. women aged 15–19 years (1). Because of the adverse health, social, and economic consequences of teenage childbearing, CDC analyzed data on teenage pregnancies and births (1,2). These data will be used to monitor progress toward national goals and to assist in targeting program efforts...

Teenage pregnancy.

OBJECTIVES This article examines trends in teenage pregnancy in Canada, focussing on induced abortions, live births and fetal loss among women aged 15 to 19 in 1997. DATA SOURCES The data come from the Hospital Morbidity Data Base and the Canadian Vital Statistics Data Base at Statistics Canada, and the annual Therapeutic Abortion Survey, conducted by the Canadian Institute for Health Informa...

Teenage Pregnancy and

Teenage pregnancies: is the high rate of teenage pregnancy and parenthood in the UK a public health problem?

Introduction In 2002, the number of all teenagers under 18 years who became pregnant in England and Wales was 461745.1 Around 20% of these conceptions were second pregnancies. Just over 50% resulted in live births, causing the UK to have a teenage birth rate that is twice as high as Germany, three times as high as France and six times as high as The Netherlands. In England, the problem is great...

Teenage Pregnancy Consequences of Teenage Childbearing

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