What are the figures for teenage pregnancy in the country and the continent?

Teenage Pregnancy.

The world's adolescent populations are at significant risk of altering the course of their lives forever: early pregnancy.  Since sexuality is discovered at this stage and this is a topic that is often taboo in societies, the information available is often scarce or biased.

The high rate of teenage pregnancy places Mexico in the first place in the occurrence of pregnancies in women aged 15 to 19 within the countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which in 2019 registered an average rate of 13.7 Births per 1,000 women ages 15-19.

Latin America has the second highest rate of pregnancies in the world, with around 18 percent of births corresponding to those under 20 years of age. 

The problem of teenage pregnancy

Teenage pregnancy or early pregnancy occurs when neither your body nor your mind is prepared for it; between initial adolescence or puberty – the beginning of childbearing age – and the end of adolescence, which the WHO sets at 19 years. Most teen pregnancies are unplanned and unwanted pregnancies. At these ages, pregnancy can be the product of physical, symbolic, psychological and economic violence. The risk of dying from pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum-related causes doubles if girls become pregnant before the age of 15

Consequence of pregnancy at an early age.

Girls who become oregnant at an early age are at increased risk of m,aternal mortality and morbidity. pregnancy during the fist few years after puberty increases the risk of miscarriage, obstruction of labor, postpartum hemorrhage, pregnancy-related hypertension , and debilitating lifelong conditions such as obstetric fistula. Having veryyoung children also means that women  and girl are move vulnerable to other negative maternal health outcomes from frequent births, unintended pregnancies and unsafe abortions. consequences of early pregnancybarbies born to teenage  mothers are more likely to be stillborn, premature, or underweight and are at higher risk of dying in infancy, due to the mother's youngage. This risk is compounded by the llack of access to comprehensive sexual and reproductive health information and services.