Carrying cases occur among a lot of teenage girls aged between 15 and 19 years old
It recorded 16 million births among girls aged between 15 and 19 years old each year, or about 11% of all births worldwide.
And it happens about 95% of the births in low- and middle-income countries. And increases the average birth rate among teenagers in middle-income countries for the weakness recorded in high-income countries average, while the five-fold increase in low-income countries.
The births that occurred during the period of adolescence is about 2% in China and 18% in Latin America and the Caribbean and more than 50% in sub-Saharan Africa the proportion.
And half of all births occur among adolescent girls in just seven countries: Bangladesh, Brazil, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, India, Nigeria and the United States.
Pregnancy among young adolescents is a major problem
In low- and middle-income countries of the girls who become mothers before they reach the age of sixteen ratio of approximately 10% of all girls, experiencing sub-Saharan Africa and south-central and south-east Asia, the highest in this regard.
And vary the percentage of women who become pregnant before the age of fifteen very different even within the same region - In sub-Saharan Africa, for example, the percentage of 0.3% in Rwanda compared to 12.2% in Mozambique.
No similar contexts where teenage pregnancy is always happening
That having a child out of wedlock is not surprising in a lot of countries. Experiencing Latin America and the Caribbean and parts of sub-Saharan Africa and high-income countries are higher than those taking place in Asia in terms of teenage pregnancies out of wedlock rates.
It is likely to be a teenage pregnancies of unmarried mostly in cases of unwanted pregnancy and are also likely to end abortion deliberately.
And contribute to cases of forced sex - which reported 10% of the girls who had sex for the first time before the age of 15 years from exposure to this kind of sex - in the incidence of unwanted pregnancies among teenagers.
It is a teenage pregnancy danger to the mother
Although the registered births among teenagers aged between 10 and 19 years amounting to 11% of all births worldwide proportion, but they contribute 23% of the total burden of disease (DALYs disability-adjusted) due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth.
It occurs 14% of all unsafe abortions in low- and middle-income countries to girls aged between 15 and 19 years old. The subject about 2.5 teenager unsafe abortion every year, adolescent girls and exposed more serious than those experienced by older women for complications.
In Latin America, teenage girls who did they reach 16 years of age are more prone to the risk of dying in pregnancy and childbirth quadrupled women in their twenties are considered.
And linked to many health problems particular relevance to the negative effects of pregnancy during adolescence. These problems include anemia, malaria, HIV and other immunodeficiency cases of sexually transmitted infections and bleeding that occurs after childbirth and psychiatric disorders such as depression.
It has been observed that up to 65% of women who suffer from obstetric fistula contracted in adolescence, affecting more severe their lives physically and socially.
Teenage pregnancy poses a risk to the child
It was noted that the incidence of stillbirth and infant death in the first week of life 50% higher among infants born to women under the age of 20 years compared to infants born to women aged between 20 and 29 years old.
And that the cases of infant death in the first month of life increase by between 50 and 100% if the mother is a teenager and not in the older age group, the more young maternal age increased risks.
And birth rates before the completion of the duration of pregnancy and low birth weight and neonatal exposure to asphyxia higher among children born to teens, and more than all of these cases, the likelihood of infant death or suffering health problems in the future.
And that pregnant teenage girls more inclined than older on smoking and alcohol abuse women, which can cause a lot of problems for the child, whether at birth or after.
Teenage pregnancy adversely affects communities
Have a lot of pregnant girls to drop out of school, which would succeed the long-term effects on them as individuals and on their families and communities.
Studies have shown that delaying pregnancy and childbirth until after the end of the period of adolescence can reduce population growth rates significantly, which could result in economic and social benefits and wide, in addition to improving adolescent health.
The progress so far
Reproduction rates have declined among teenagers significantly in the majority of countries and regions in the last two or three decades.
And experiencing a lot of countries, a rise in the age of first marriage, as well as in the use of contraceptives among married adolescents and unmarried.
The higher the level of education of girls in most countries, and increased employment opportunities. And linked to low levels of education closely linked to early childbearing.
