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Globally in 2023, an estimated 13 per cent of adolescent girls and young women give birth before age 18. Early childbearing, or pregnancy and delivery during adolescence, can derail girls’ otherwise healthy development into adulthood and have negative impacts on their education, livelihoods and health.
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10 kwi 2024 · As of 2019, adolescents aged 15–19 years in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) had an estimated 21 million pregnancies each year, of which approximately 50% were unintended and which resulted in an estimated 12 million births (1,2).
With a vast percentage of teenage girls remaining at home, the country is likely to experience a surge in teenage pregnancies due to early marriages and early sexual practices by this illiterate teenage population.
Early pregnancies among adolescents have major health and social consequences. With regard to health consequences, pregnancy and childbirth complications are the leading cause of death among girls aged 15–19 years globally, with low- and middle-income countries accounting for 99% of global maternal deaths of women aged 15–49 years.
Teen birth rates declined from 15 births per 1,000 females in 2020 to 14 births per 1,000 females in 2021. This is a record low and a decrease of 7% from 2020. 1. Reasons for the declines are not totally clear.
In 2017, the majority — an estimated 58 percent — of pregnancies to adolescent females ages 15-17 ended in a birth and 28 percent ended in an abortion; for teens ages 18-19, 62 percent of pregnancies ended in a birth and 23 percent ended in an abortion.
25 lut 2022 · More than 12 million adolescent girls between ages 15 and 19 gave birth in 2019. Girls who give birth before adulthood are likely to bear increased health risks, social stigma, and adverse economic impacts for the rest of their lives. Pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death among adolescent girls aged 15-19.
