How many teenage pregnancies were there in 2011

In addition, teens who receive these methods do not always use them; the findings in this report suggest that only half of sexually active females who received a method of birth control from a health-care provider used a LARC or another hormonal method at last intercourse. Numerous sex education programs have been shown to be effective in delaying sexual initiation or increasing contraceptive use Research also has shown that parent-child communication can delay sexual initiation and reduce sexual risk behaviors Nonetheless, consistent with other recent publications 19 , this report suggests many teens do not receive formal sex education that covers both abstinence and contraception, and many teens do not talk with their parents about ways to prevent pregnancy.

The findings in this report are subject to at least five limitations. First, natality data are based on births, not pregnancies, and therefore exclude pregnancies that do not result in live birth. Second, estimates of sexual risk and protective behaviors i. Nonetheless, survey questions demonstrate good test-retest reliability Third, the findings obtained through YRBS are applicable only to youths who attend school and are not representative of out-of-school teens who might have a higher prevalence of health risk behaviors Fourth, although surveys indicate the majority of teen births are unintended 23 , distinguishing unintended from intended births is not possible using data from the National Vital Statistics System.

In , approximately 5, females aged years gave birth; although this is the lowest number reported in more than 60 years 1 , births in this age group are of particular concern. Programs for preventing teen pregnancy should be broad-based and multifaceted. The programs should provide evidence-based sex education, support parental efforts to talk with their children about pregnancy prevention and other aspects of sexual and reproductive health, and ensure that sexually active teens have ready access to contraception that is effective and affordable.

The U. The percentage of students who used methods other than condoms, birth control pills, or Depo-Provera is not assessed in this report. The contraceptive implants Norplant and Implanon and the intrauterine device Mirena also contain hormones but are classified in this report as LARCs. Although the U. Approximately half of U. Teens need sex education, the opportunity to talk with their parents about pregnancy prevention and other aspects of sexual and reproductive health, and those who become sexually active need access to affordable, effective birth control.

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Classifications of the completeness of abortion reports were based on expert assessments obtained for a recent study of abortion incidence [ 13 ]. In addition, comparisons with estimates from alternate sources, such as surveys of women, were made when such sources were available. Additional details on the countries with incomplete statistics and those with restrictive abortion laws follow. For countries with incomplete abortion statistics, pregnancy rates and the proportions of pregnancies that end in abortion presented here are lower than the true values because the numbers of abortions are undercounted.

Such estimates are nevertheless useful because they indicate the minimum levels of both measures in these countries. For a few countries lacking official abortion reports with sufficient coverage, we used abortion estimates from alternate sources. For the United States, we combined estimates of abortion incidence based on a census of abortion providers [ 14 ] with information on the age distribution of abortions compiled annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [ 15 ].

Reliable national estimates of age-specific incidence of abortion are available for only five countries with restrictive laws, all in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and Mexico. Abortion estimates in these countries include both legal and illegal abortions. Findings from recent surveys of women in the United States support these model-based estimates [ 23 ]. Birth rates are compared across all countries covered in this review regardless of whether the abortion and pregnancy rates are complete because births are not as vulnerable to under-reporting as abortions.

Adolescent pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates are the number of events per 1, females 15—19 years old. The rates for young adolescents are calculated as the number of events per 1, females 10—14 years old. Rates among young adolescents would likely be higher if they could be computed for 13—to14—year olds, to whom most of these events likely occur, but population estimates for this 2-year age group are not available for many countries.

Confidence intervals are not presented because vital statistics on live births and populations are not considered estimates with uncertainty, but true population values. The majority of findings presented here are for developed countries according to the UN classification of countries [ 24 ].

If information was not available for , we sought estimates for an earlier time period but not earlier than The only exception is Kenya, for which we report an estimate for because that is the only year for which relevant information is available. We examine trends in countries for which estimates for the mids were previously published [ 8 ], if estimates are deemed to be sufficiently complete in both periods.

The estimates for that period were similarly made across all possible countries and classified by completeness of reports. The previously published data included only births and abortions; we estimated numbers of miscarriages in the mids to render the pregnancy estimates comparable with those for Trends in teen pregnancy rates since the mids are presented both as the average annual change in absolute rate points and the annualized 8 percentage change in each country.

Both measures are useful because the absolute point change can be large if the baseline rate is high, whereas the percentage change controls for differences in the baseline rate. To examine the correlation between teen pregnancy rates and the proportion of pregnancies that ended in abortion in , we used bivariate analyses of two continuous variables to estimate the correlation coefficient and associated p value.

Among the 21 countries with liberal abortion laws and complete teen pregnancy estimates for —, the rate was the highest in the United States 57 pregnancies per 1, adolescents in , followed by New Zealand 51 and England and Wales 47 Table 1. The lowest teen pregnancy rate was in Switzerland 8 , followed by the Netherlands 14 , Singapore 14 , and Slovenia Among countries with incomplete estimates, rates were high in Azerbaijan 67 , Georgia 62 , and Romania Adolescent pregnancy rates were far higher in Mexico and the Sub-Saharan African countries than in any other countries in this review, ranging from Ethiopia to Burkina Faso.

Adolescent birth, abortion, and pregnancy rates and percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion among females 15—19 years old, or most recent prior year.

Albania: Abortion estimates are from a nationally representative survey of women. Because of a high teen pregnancy rate and large population, the estimated annual number of teen pregnancies was far higher in the United States , than any other country in this review. The number of teen pregnancies was also high in Mexico , and Ethiopia , The birth rates in the countries with complete pregnancy estimates ranged from 2 Switzerland to 34 the United States. However, teen birth rates can be fairly compared across a broader range of countries because these statistics are less prone to underreporting than are abortion rates.

Among all 49 countries reviewed here, the rates were the highest by far in countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. The rate exceeded 90 in all four countries represented from this region and was the highest in Burkina Faso Outside Sub-Saharan Africa, the highest teen birth rate was in Mexico 68 , followed by Azerbaijan The highest adolescent abortion rate among countries with complete abortion records was in England and Wales 20 and Sweden It was 15 in the United States.

In about half of the countries, the rate was between 8 and The teen abortion rate was the lowest in Switzerland 5. In Mexico and the countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, where abortion is largely illegal, the adolescent abortion rate ranged from 11 Ethiopia to 44 Mexico.

This statistic was not calculated for the countries with incomplete abortion statistics. In countries with high teen pregnancy rates, a smaller proportion of those pregnancies ended in abortion. As a result, the spread in birth rates is even greater than the already large spread in pregnancy rates. For example, the U. Pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates among young adolescents 10—14 years old are far lower than among to year olds Table 2.

Of the 23 countries for which birth rates to to year olds are presented, the highest was in Romania 1. In the majority of countries, there were fewer than. Of the 11 countries with complete estimates of young adolescent pregnancy rates, the lowest was in Switzerland. The rate was even higher in Romania 2. Estimates for this age group are not available from the studies conducted in countries with restrictive abortion laws. Generally, a higher proportion of pregnancies to to year olds ended in abortion compared with the proportion among to year olds.

Adolescent birth, abortion, and pregnancy rates and percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion among females 10—14 years old, or most recent prior year. The teen pregnancy rate declined in the majority of the 16 countries with complete estimates in both the mids and Figure 2 ; see also Appendix Table 2 for pregnancy, birth, and abortion rates in the mids.

The decline might have been steeper in Russia and some other former Soviet countries, but incomplete abortion reports preclude an assessment of trends in these countries. The steepest average annual point change in the rate was in the United States 2. The teen pregnancy rate increased in Belgium and Sweden. However, current rates in these countries are still fairly low, at 21 and 29, respectively.

Changes in adolescent pregnancy rates, — See Table 1 and Appendix Table 1 for reference years. In most countries, the birth rate declined more steeply than the abortion rate. Exceptions are Hungary, Slovakia, and the United States where the abortion rate declined more steeply than the birth rate.