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The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world is in sub-Saharan Africa, where women tend to marry at an early age. [127] In 2023, in Western and Central Africa, and Eastern and Southern Africa, over 25% of adolescent girls and young women gave birth before age 18.
In 2016, three in ten American girls fell pregnant before age 20, corresponding to almost 750,000 pregnancies a year. [14] In 2008, 16% of all girls became teen mothers. [15] Among girls 15 to 19, birth rates fell 77% between the 1990s and 2020s. [10]
From 2009 to 2010, the teen pregnancy rate dropped another 9%, the biggest one-year drop since the 1940s. [34] Each year, almost 750,000 girls 15–19 become pregnant. Two thirds of all teen pregnancies occur among the oldest teens (18–19). [17] Of them, 82% are unplanned, which accounted for about 20% of all unintended pregnancies annually. [17]
Kennedy Johnson was 15 years old when she gave birth to a baby girl in a Detroit foster home for teen moms, in February 1996. Twenty-five years later, when Johnson found herself in northern Ghana ...
A Texas teen died after the state’s ban on abortion stopped her from getting life-saving medical care while experiencing pregnancy complications. On October 28, 2023, the day of her baby shower ...
16 and Pregnant was created as a method of early intervention in teenage pregnancy prevention. At the time of its premiere, producers defended the show with arguments that 16 and Pregnant would educate teenage girls on the realities of pregnancy and teenage motherhood. [7]
The purported scandal shocked the nation when it was reported that 18 high school girls in Gloucester, Mass., were all pregnant at the same time in 2008.
Teenage pregnancy is formally defined as the pregnancy of a young female between the ages of 13 and 19, regardless of whether she is married or is legally an adult (according to age limits, depending on the country) at the time of giving birth.