Sunday, October 16, 2011

The numbers on adolescent pregnancy revealed

Statistics of pregnancy in adolescent girls in the United States vary by State. In 2000, teen birth rates were highest in Mississippi, Texas, Arizona, Arkansas and New-Mexico. Nevada had the highest rate of teen to 113 per 1,000 women. Birth rates were lowest in New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, North Dakota and Maine. The lowest birth rate was found in North Dakota, with 42 per 1,000 women.


The teenage abortion rate is higher in the District of Columbia, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Nevada and California. Indeed, more than 50% of adolescent girls pregnant in New Jersey, New York, Maryland, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia choose to terminate their pregnancy. Adolescents in Utah, Kentucky, North Dakota and South Dakota had the lowest rate of abortion. South Dakota, Kentucky and Utah had less than 17% of their pregnant teenagers choose abortion.


According to statistics available adolescent pregnancy, Arkansas has the highest rate of pregnancy among its population white non-Hispanic, with 77 per 1,000 youth. Other southern States have also show a similar trend, with high pregnancy white non-Hispanic. The teen pregnancy statistics regarding rates of Alabama, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky and South Carolina, for example, varies from 71 to 73 per 1,000. Yet again, to North Dakota had the lowest rate among non-Hispanic whites, with 33 per 1,000.


When you look at the statistics of the teenage pregnancy for black adolescents aged 15 to 19, pregnancy rates were highest in New Jersey, with 209 per 1,000. Follows closely, have been in Wisconsin, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Oregon with rates from 161 to 177 per 1,000. Black teenage pregnancy rates were lowest in Utah, the New-Mexico, West Virginia, Rhode Island and Colorado, where they were going to 71 and 114 per thousand.


In the Hispanic population, pregnancy rates ranged from 154 to 169 per 1,000 in Georgia, Arizona, Tennessee, in Colorado and Delaware, the States which have the highest rates among this group. The lowest rates for Hispanic adolescents are found in the Mississippi, Missouri, Dakota South and Ohio, where the figures range from 71 to 115 per 1,000.


Between 1988 and 2000, teen pregnancy rates have declined in all the States and between all groups. The rate of pregnancy among adolescent girls black aged 15-19 decreased by 40% between 1990 and 2002. The decrease in white adolescents was 34%, and among Hispanic adolescents, it was 19%.


From its peak in 1988, the teenage abortion rate decreased by 50% in 2002. This decline reflected in teenage pregnancy statistics represents the fact that the number of adolescents who have sexual relations, 47 per cent in 2003 against 53% in 1993. In addition to the increase in abstinence, however, it has been an increase in the rate of contraceptive use.


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