Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Teenage pregnancy in the United Kingdom refers to the rate at which people under 20 fall pregnant in the United Kingdom.As of 2021, the rate of teenage conceptions in the United Kingdom was 5.226% percent of total conceptions, [1] whereas 2.199% of all live births in the United Kingdom were to mothers under 20 years of age. [2]
The rates of teenage pregnancy may vary widely within a country. For instance, in the United Kingdom, the rate of adolescent pregnancy in 2002 was as high as 100.4 per 1000 among young women living in the London Borough of Lambeth , and as low as 20.2 per 1000 among residents in the Midlands local authority area of Rutland .
In 1998, the government of the UK set a target to halve the under-18 pregnancy rate by 2010. The Teenage Pregnancy Strategy (TPS) was established to achieve this. The pregnancy rate in this group, although falling, rose slightly in 2007, to 41.7 per 1,000 women. [79]
The average age of a girl's first period is 12 to 13 (12.5 years in the United States, [6] 12.72 in Canada, [7] 12.9 in the UK [8]) but, in postmenarchal girls, about 80% of the cycles are anovulatory in the first year after menarche, which declines to 50% in the third year, and to 10% by the sixth. [9]
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Teen births, aged 15–19, per 1,000 people by state, 2015. Teenage pregnancy in the United States occurs mostly unintentionally [1] and out of wedlock [2] [3] but has been declining almost continuously since the 1990s. [1] [4] [5] In 2022, the teenage birth rate fell to 13.5 per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 19, the lowest on record. [6]
Please wait a moment and reload the page learn more. Try again. Copyright © 2022 Yahoo. All rights reserved.
The 'fly-on-the-wall' documentary highlights the UK's high teenage pregnancy rate and follows Kizzy after she leaves school for the summer holidays in 2007. Kizzy was born in Leicester in 1992, but lives in Torbay.