Teen pregnancy statistics from the Guttmacher Institute
|
Rates of adolescent birth,
abortion and pregnancy per year (per 1,000 women aged 15-19) and
abortion ratio (per 100 pregnancies) by developed country, for the most
recent year available
|
|
Country
|
Birth
rate
|
Abortion
rate
|
Pregnancy
rate
|
Abortion
ratio
|
|
Albania
|
15.4
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Armenia
|
56.2
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Australia
|
19.8
|
23.8
|
43.7
|
54.1
|
|
Austria
|
15.6
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Belarus
|
39.0
|
34.3
|
73.3
|
47.5
|
|
Belgium
|
9.1
|
5.0
|
14.1
|
35.6
|
|
Bosnia and Herzegovina
|
38.0
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Bulgaria
|
49.6
|
33.7
|
83.3
|
40.4
|
|
Canada
|
24.2
|
21.2
|
45.4
|
47.1
|
|
Croatia
|
19.9
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Czech Republic
|
20.1
|
12.3
|
32.4
|
38.1
|
|
Denmark
|
8.3
|
14.
|
22.
|
62.
|
|
England
and Wales
|
28.4
|
18.6
|
46.9
|
40.2
|
|
Estonia
|
33.4
|
32.8
|
66.2
|
49.7
|
|
Finland
|
9.8
|
10.7
|
20.5
|
52.9
|
|
France
|
10.0
|
10.2*
|
20.2*
|
51.2*
|
|
Georgia
|
53.0
|
13.4*
|
66.4*
|
20.2*
|
|
Germany
|
12.5
|
3.6
|
16.1
|
23.0
|
|
Greece
|
13.0
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Hungary
|
29.5
|
29.6
|
59.1
|
50.3
|
|
Iceland
|
22.1
|
21.2
|
43.3
|
51.1
|
|
Ireland
|
15.0
|
4.2*
|
19.2*
|
21.9*
|
|
Israel
|
18.0
|
9.8†
|
27.9†
|
35.3†
|
|
Italy
|
6.9
|
5.1*
|
12.0*
|
42.9*
|
|
Japan
|
3.9
|
6.3*,†
|
10.1*,†
|
61.9*,†
|
|
Latvia
|
25.5
|
29.0
|
54.5
|
47.6
|
|
Lithuania
|
36.7
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Macedonia
|
44.1
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Moldova
|
53.2
|
11.6*
|
64.8*
|
18.1*
|
|
Netherlands
|
8.2‡
|
4.0‡
|
12.2‡
|
33.8‡
|
|
New Zealand
|
34.0
|
20.0
|
54.0
|
37.2
|
|
Northern Ireland§
|
23.7‡
|
4.8*,‡
|
28.4*,‡
|
17.0*,‡
|
|
Norway
|
13.5
|
18.7
|
32.3
|
59.2
|
|
Poland
|
21.1
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Portugal
|
20.9
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Romania**
|
42.0
|
32.0*
|
74.0*
|
42.9*
|
|
Russian Federation††
|
45.6
|
56.1*
|
101.7*
|
56.1*
|
|
Scotland‡‡
|
27.1
|
14.
|
41.6
|
37.
|
|
Slovak Republic
|
32.3
|
11.1
|
43.3
|
25.5
|
|
Slovenia
|
9.3
|
10.6
|
19.9
|
49.2
|
|
Spain
|
7.8
|
4.5*
|
12.3*
|
36.7*
|
|
Sweden
|
7.7
|
17.2
|
24.9
|
69.6
|
|
Switzerland
|
5.7
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
Ukraine
|
54.3
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
|
United States
|
54.4
|
29.2
|
83.6
|
34.9
|
|
Yugoslavia (Federal Rep.)
|
32.1
|
u
|
u
|
u
|
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