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10/03/2016

Teen Pregnancy Rate Falls Further – ONS

The latest official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that the number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales continues to fall.

In 2014, there were around 23 pregnancies per 1,000 15 to 17-year-old girls. This compares to a high of 55 per 1,000 girls in 1971.

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The figures mean that a target set by the then-Labour government in 1998 to halve teen pregnancies by 2010 has now, albeit six years late, been met.

Elsewhere, the ONS research found that the estimated number of pregnancies in girls under the age of 18 fell to 22,653 in 2014, compared with 24,306 in 2013. This is a fall of 6.8%.

In 2014, some 4,160 girls under the age of 16 fell pregnant. This compares with 4,648 in 2013 – a decrease of 10%.

Conception rates in 2014 increased for women aged 25 and over, and fell for women under the age of 25.

(JP/LM)

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"The latest official figures from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) have revealed that the number of teenage pregnancies in England and Wales continues to fall."