Where is the highest teenage pregnancy rate in UK?
Where is the highest teenage pregnancy rate in UK? According to the Teenage Pregnancy Independent Advisory Group "the national trend has continued to reduce since 2009, with the exception of a slight upward trend in 2010" (TPIA 12, 3). The percentage of under 16s pregnant in 2010 was 78%, which was a reduction of 36% since 2005. The percentage of teenage conceptions to girls under 16 continued to fall in 2016, from around seven-out-of-ten in 2015 to around five-out-of-ten. This percentage is similar to the percentage seen over the 2005 to 2016 period (see Office for National Statistics 2009a: 8). There was a slight upward trend in 2017, with 78% of conceptions to girls under 16…