Global Incidence

Teen birth and abortion rates, 1996^[9][10][11] per 1000 women 15–19

Country	birth rate	abortion rate	Combined rate
Netherlands	7.7	3.9	11.6
Spain	7.5	4.9	12.4
Italy	6.6	6.7	13.3
Greece	12.2	1.3	13.5
Belgium	9.9	5.2	15.1
Germany	13.0	5.3	18.3
Finland	9.8	9.6	19.4
France	9.4	13.2	22.6
Denmark	8.2	15.4	23.6
Sweden	7.7	17.7	25.4
Norway	13.6	18.3	31.9
Czech Republic	20.1	12.4	32.5
Iceland	21.5	20.6	42.1
Slovakia	30.5	13.1	43.6
Australia	20.1	23.9	44
Canada	22.3	22.1	44.4
Israel	32.0	14.3	46.3
United Kingdom	29.6	21.3	50.9
New Zealand	33.4	22.5	55.9
Hungary	29.9	30.2	60.1
United States	55.6	30.2	85.8

Live births per 1000 women 15–19 years old, 2002:^[12]

Country	Teenage birth rate per 1000 women 15–19
South Korea	3
Japan	4
China	5
Switzerland	5
Netherlands	5
Spain	6
Singapore	6
Italy	6
Sweden	7
Denmark	7
Slovenia	8
Finland	8
Luxembourg	9
France	9
Belgium	9
Greece	10
Cyprus	10
Norway	11
Germany	11
Malta	12
Austria	12
Ireland	15
Poland	16
Canada	16
Australia	16
Albania	16
Portugal	17
Israel	17
Czech Republic	17
Iceland	19
Croatia	19
United Kingdom	20
Hungary	21
Bosnia and Herzegovina	23
Slovakia	24
Latvia	24
Lithuania	26
Estonia	26
New Zealand	27
Belarus	27
Russia	30
Georgia	33
Macedonia	34
Armenia	34
Romania	37
Ukraine	38
Saudi Arabia	38
Bulgaria	41
Chile	44
Brazil	45
United States	53
Indonesia	55
Mexico	64
South Africa	66
India	73
Nigeria	103
Niger	233

Save the Children found that, annually, 13 million children are born to women under age 20 worldwide, more than 90% in developing countries. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of mortality among women between the ages of 15 and 19 in such areas.^[4] The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world is in sub-Saharan Africa, where women tend to marry at an early age.^[2] In Niger, for example, 87% of women surveyed were married and 53% had given birth to a child before the age of 18.^[13]
In the Indian subcontinent, early marriage sometimes means adolescent pregnancy, particularly in rural regions where the rate is much higher than it is in urbanized areas. The rate of early marriage and pregnancy has decreased sharply in Indonesia and Malaysia, although it remains relatively high in the former. In the industrialized Asian nations such as South Korea and Singapore, teenage birth rates are among the lowest in the world.^[14]
The overall trend in Europe since 1970 has been a decreasing total fertility rate, an increase in the age at which women experience their first birth, and a decrease in the number of births among teenagers.^{[citation needed]} Most continental Western European countries have very low teenage birth rates. This is varyingly attributed to good sex education and high levels of contraceptive use (in the case of the Netherlands and Scandinavia), traditional values and social stigmatization (in the case of Spain and Italy) or both (in the case of Switzerland).^[3]
The teenage birth rate in the United States is the highest in the developed world, and the teenage abortion rate is also high.^[3] The U.S. teenage pregnancy rate was at a high in the 1950s and has decreased since then, although there has been an increase in births out of wedlock.^[15] The teenage pregnancy rate decreased significantly in the 1990s; this decline manifested across all racial groups, although teenagers of African-American and Hispanic descent retain a higher rate, in comparison to that of European-Americans and Asian-Americans. The Guttmacher Institute attributed about 25% of the decline to abstinence and 75% to the effective use of contraceptives.^{[16] [17]} However, in 2006 the teenage birth rate rose for the first time in fourteen years.^[18] This could imply that teen pregnancy rates are also on the rise, however the rise could also be due to other sources: a possible decrease in the number of abortions or a decrease in the number of miscarriages, to name a few. The Canadian teenage birth has also trended towards a steady decline for both younger (15–17) and older (18–19) teens in the period between 1992–2002.<sup>[19]








































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