Where each of the Sixth before the age of 20. Birthday child
They are still almost children – and get young talent: Worldwide, twelve million girls each year, between 15 and 19 years of a child to the world. This corresponds to nine per cent of all births worldwide.
It is striking: birth rates among Teenage girls are big regional differences. While it is expected to have in affluent regions are much less likely to have a pregnancy at a young age and this often ends in an abortion, in other areas of many of the Minors that they are young mothers.
A positive development is that the birth rate among Teens is declining since years: 1960 to 86 out of 1000 girls were in the worldwide average, between 15 and 19 years of a child, in 2017, there were only half as many.
In many Parts of the world has changed in the past few decades, societal views of young people. Childhood and youth have many places to get a higher priority, to protect.
And the realization of the UN population Fund is more and more: to be Young mother, restricts Teenage girls in their personal and social development, and deprived them of their youth.
In addition, a pregnancy and birth at a young age can harm their health. The risk of complications in girls, according to WHO, considerably higher than that of adult young women. Especially in the case of girls under 15 years of age, of which annually about two million become pregnant, the maternal mortality rate are striking.
For young mothers, the economic Situation is getting worse often: Brings a girl early in a child, must you stop often in school or lose your Job. Poverty and exclusion are frequent consequences.
Most of the time it hits the girls, who already suffer a disadvantage already Early pregnancies are still common, especially in poorer regions. In African countries South of the Sahara gave birth to 2017 in the cutting of every ten girls between 15 and 19 years of a child.
The highest birth rate is in Niger, where more than one in every six girls before his 20. Age brings a child into the world. In areas where women have good access to contraceptive methods and safe abortion practices, are birth rates among Teenage girls, however, significantly lower. In North America, only one of 50 Teenage girls mother (1.9 percent), and in the EU only every Hundredth (1 percent).
A decisive factor for the high birth rates in many African countries is that young girls often get married young, and the expectation of face to be sexually active and to bear children. Around 90 percent of the teenage pregnancies occur within marriages or partnerships.
Girls and young women in Niger
In Niger, the country with the highest birth rate, the proportion of married minors as high as in any other country. In a Unicef survey, more than three-quarters of the young Nigrerinnen said before your 18. Years old be married or in a committed connection have been to. More than a quarter had actually been married or partnered, before they were 15.
Also in many other countries, especially South of the Sahara and in some Parts of Latin America, are a striking number of girls before the age of 18. Years married:
Sex education and the availability of contraceptives play a role in this. Many of the pregnancies of Minors are unwanted, because of the need for contraception is not covered.
But here, too, positive developments are discernible: In Afghanistan and Bhutan, for example, the birth rate among Minors has fallen within the past 20 years. At the same time has increased the availability of contraceptives significantly: While in 2000, only about five percent of Afghan women aged 15 years and adequate contraception were available, were it is 2015 after all, just under 23 percent.
In Bhutan, the rate of Availability of contraceptives increased from about 31 percent in 2000 to about 66 percent at the time of the most recent survey in 2010. In Azerbaijan, however, slightly more than half of the minimum reported year over a longer period of time, to have plenty of contraceptives available. Nevertheless, the birth rate increased among 15 – to 19-Year-olds since 1997.
The birth rate only, how many pregnant teenage unsubscribe, the inside is actually your child. A survey by the Guttmacher Institute, a U.S. Non-profit research organisation, shows that in wealthy countries where teenage pregnancies are in any case rare had to be cancelled, significantly more often – legal and illegal.
However, even in countries with high birth and pregnancy rates, aborted, often using unsafe methods, and accompanied by high risks for both mother and child.