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The teenage pregnancy rate was 33.9 per 1,000. The Canadian teenage pregnancy rate declined for both younger (15–17) and older (18–19) teens between 1992 and 2002. [22] Canada's highest teen pregnancy rates occur in small towns located in rural parts of peninsular Ontario. Alberta and Quebec have high teen pregnancy rates as well.
The US teen pregnancy rate 15 to 19 year olds, per 1,000, 1973 to 2011, including Black, Hispanic, and White populations [139] In 2001, the teenage birth rate in the US was the highest in the developed world, and the teenage abortion rate is also high.
This decline was more substantial among blacks than among whites (50% vs. 26%) and about half of the rate among teen girls. [18] Studies in 2008 and 2013 indicated that Asians (23 per 1,000) and whites (43 per 1,000) have lower rates of pregnancy before the age of 20. [15] [18] Teen birth rates decline by racial groups [8]
A new government report shows teen birth rates have fallen drastically in the past two decades and have even hit a record low. The report, published Wednesday on the CDC website, shows teen birth ...
Credit - Getty Images. T he risk of teenage pregnancy continues to rise at alarming rates. Representing 5% of total births in the U.S. in 2022, there were more than 146,000 teen births—the ...
Tennessee is ranked 44th out of the 50 states in rates of teen pregnancy at 21.5 per thousand, with the national average being 13.5 per thousand. Georgia is not far behind at 36th and California ...
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]
Teen birth rates in the U.S. are at an all-time low, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).The birth rate among 15- to 19-year-olds in 2022 was 13. ...