In 2022, Bulgaria had the highest share of births to teenage mothers in Europe, at almost 10.2 percent of all births in the country. Furthermore, in Slovakia and Moldova, over five percent of births in both countries were to mothers aged below 20 years. The share of teenage births was particularly low in Switzerland, Andorra, and Norway. Falling teenage births In Europe, the share of births to teenage mothers has been trending downwards. Across the whole European region, the share of adolescent births fell from almost *** percent in 1980 to ***** percent in 2021. More specifically, in the European Union, teenagers accounted for fewer than *** percent of all births in 2021. Access to contraception In developed countries, the average age for women giving birth has increased over time, and in general, women are choosing to have fewer children. One of the main reasons is improved access to contraception, which allows women greater autonomy over their bodies. Luxembourg, which was rated as having the best access to modern contraception, also has the highest average childbearing age in Europe. Next on the contraception ranking; Belgium, France, and the UK also had a mean age of around ** for mothers.

In 1991, the birth rate for girls aged 10 to 14 years in the United States stood at 1.4 births per every thousand girls. Since 1991, this rate has consistently decreased, dropping to .2 in the year 2023. This statistic depicts the number of births per thousand U.S. females aged 10 to 14 years between 1991 and 2023. Teenage pregnancy and contraception Over the years, the rate of teenage pregnancy and birth has declined in the United States, most likely due to lower rates of sexual activity in this age group as well as increased use of birth control methods. However, the use and accessibility of contraceptives remains a problem in many parts of the United States. For example, in 2021, only 21 percent of sexually active high school students reported using the birth control pill to prevent pregnancy before their last sexual intercourse. This rate was highest among white high students and lowest among Black students, with only 11 percent reporting use of the birth control pill before their last intercourse. Condom use is more prevalent among high school students than use of the pill, but still only just over half of high school students reported using a condom the last time they had sex as of 2021. Disparities in teenage pregnancy Although rates have decreased over the past decades, teenage pregnancy and birth rates in the U.S. are still higher than in other Western countries. Geographic, racial, and ethnic disparities in teen birth rates are still prevalent within the country. In 2023, teenage birth rates were highest among Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders. Other contributing factors to high teen birth rates also include poor socioeconomic conditions, low education, and low-income status.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Hispanic data was reported at 39.000 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 40.100 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Hispanic data is updated yearly, averaging 124.550 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2023, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 155.500 % in 1991 and a record low of 39.000 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Hispanic data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Hispanic data was reported at 20.800 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 21.300 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Hispanic data is updated yearly, averaging 76.500 % from Dec 1989 (Median) to 2023, with 35 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 104.600 % in 1991 and a record low of 20.800 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Hispanic data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17 data was reported at 5.500 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 5.600 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17 data is updated yearly, averaging 21.800 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 38.600 % in 1991 and a record low of 5.500 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

In 2020, the District of Columbia had the highest teenage pregnancy rate in the United States, followed by Mississippi and Arkansas. At that time, there were around 45 pregnancies among teens aged 15 to 19 per 1,000 in the District of Columbia. Teenage pregnancy Teenage pregnancy rates in the United States have decreased in recent years. In 2020, there were around 26.7 teenage pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 years. This number was almost 118 per 1,000 women in the year 1990. It is believed that the causes of this decrease include more teens abstaining from sex and increased use of birth control among those teens who are sexually active. Contraception use The use of contraception among sexually active teens is vital in reducing the rates of teen pregnancy. However, in 2021, only 52 percent of sexually active teens reported they used a condom during their last sexual intercourse. Furthermore, only 23 percent of sexually active female high school students were using the birth control bill to prevent pregnancy. Access to contraception and taboos surrounding teen sexual activity remain barriers to contraceptive use among teens in many areas of the United States.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: American Indian or Alaska Native data was reported at 9.400 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 9.500 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: American Indian or Alaska Native data is updated yearly, averaging 26.700 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 52.300 % in 1992 and a record low of 9.400 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: American Indian or Alaska Native data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

Over the past 70 years in the United States, women have gradually started having children at a later point in their lives. Before the 1980s, women in their early twenties had the highest birth rates, however women in their late twenties had the highest rates between 1980 and 2015, but were recently overtaken by women in their early thirties. Another major trend is the decline of teenage pregnancies, which was less than a quarter of it's 1950-1955 rate in the years between 2015 and 2020. In fact, birth rates among 15-19 years olds often doubled birth rates of women aged 35-39 throughout the late twentieth century, but in 2020, the opposite is true.

For women in their forties, birth rates have remained comparatively lower than rates among the other age groups. The high figures in the 1950s and 1960s, can be attributed to the baby boom that followed the Second World War. In more recent decades, rising birth rates among older age groups is not only due to societal trends, but has also been aided by improvements in assisted reproductive technology (ART), such as in vitro fertilization (IVF). Such technologies have granted thousands of women the ability to conceive in circumstances where this would not have been possible in years past.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: White data was reported at 8.400 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 9.100 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: White data is updated yearly, averaging 38.000 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 52.600 % in 1991 and a record low of 8.400 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: White data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

As of 2018, 28 percent of women aged 20 to 24 gave birth before age 18 in Nicaragua. This was the highest birth rate before age 18 in the Latin American and Caribbean countries shown in the graph. Venezuela recorded the second highest adolescent birth rate, as around 24 percent of the women aged 20 to 24 had had a child before turning 18. Cuba, on the other hand, had one of the lowest birth rates before 18 in the region, at only 6 percent.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19 data was reported at 24.600 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 25.800 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19 data is updated yearly, averaging 71.200 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 94.000 % in 1991 and a record low of 24.600 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19 data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Hispanic data was reported at 9.300 % in 2023. This stayed constant from the previous number of 9.300 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Hispanic data is updated yearly, averaging 44.750 % from Dec 1990 (Median) to 2023, with 34 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 69.900 % in 1994 and a record low of 9.300 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Hispanic data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

This statistic depicts the age distribution in the United States from 2013 to 2023. In 2023, about 17.59 percent of the U.S. population fell into the 0-14 year category, 64.97 percent into the 15-64 age group and 17.43 percent of the population were over 65 years of age. The increasing population of the United States The United States of America is one of the most populated countries in the world, trailing just behind China and India. A total population count of around 320 million inhabitants and a more-or-less steady population growth over the past decade indicate that the country has steadily improved its living conditions and standards for the population. Leading healthier lifestyles and improved living conditions have resulted in a steady increase of the life expectancy at birth in the United States. Life expectancies of men and women at birth in the United States were at a record high in 2012. Furthermore, a constant fertility rate in recent years and a decrease in the death rate and infant mortality, all due to the improved standard of living and health care conditions, have helped not only the American population to increase but as a result, the share of the population younger than 15 and older than 65 years has also increased in recent years, as can be seen above.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Black data was reported at 19.300 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 20.300 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Black data is updated yearly, averaging 62.200 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 114.800 % in 1991 and a record low of 19.300 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Black data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Black data was reported at 8.900 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 9.000 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Black data is updated yearly, averaging 36.300 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 83.500 % in 1991 and a record low of 8.900 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Black data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander data was reported at 21.200 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 20.500 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander data is updated yearly, averaging 23.850 % from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2023, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 28.600 % in 2016 and a record low of 20.500 % in 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Asian data was reported at 0.600 % in 2023. This records a decrease from the previous number of 0.700 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Asian data is updated yearly, averaging 8.400 % from Dec 1985 (Median) to 2023, with 39 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 16.300 % in 1994 and a record low of 0.600 % in 2023. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Asian data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data was reported at 7.500 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 7.300 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data is updated yearly, averaging 7.700 % from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2023, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 11.000 % in 2016 and a record low of 7.300 % in 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 15 to 17: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data was reported at 41.400 % in 2023. This records an increase from the previous number of 40.700 % for 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data is updated yearly, averaging 47.600 % from Dec 2016 (Median) to 2023, with 8 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 55.300 % in 2016 and a record low of 40.700 % in 2022. United States Birth Rate: Teenager: 18 to 19: Native Hawaiian/Oth Pacific Islander data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.G008: Birth Rate.

In 2023, the share of births of adolescent mothers in Jalisco was approximately ***** percent. Between 1994 and 2023, the figure dropped by around **** percentage points, though the decline followed an uneven course rather than a steady trajectory.