Talk:Prevalence of teenage pregnancy

Abortions, etc
Hmm... it's not clear to me whether these figures include all pregnancies, or only ones which resulted in a live birth (excluding abortions, miscarriages, still-births, etc) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.10.91.104 (talk) 01:31, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * No, the y don't include abortions. It clearly states these are live births of girls who were not 20 by the time of birth. You have some figures that include abortions at Teenage pregnancy. --Mariano (t/c) 08:12, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

Here is an example of the rate of teenage pregnancy with an explanation:

In 2006, 750,000 women younger than 20 became pregnant. The pregnancy rate was 71.5 pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15–19, and pregnancies occurred among about 7% of women in this age-group. "Pregnancies are the sum of births, abortions and miscarriages. Please note that in these tables, “age” refers to the woman’s age when the pregnancy ended. Consequently, actual numbers of pregnancies that occurred among teenagers are higher than those reported here, because most of the women who conceived at age 19 had their births or abortions after they turned 20 and, thus, were not counted as teenagers."

The numbers don't include girls under 15. Felann96 (talk) 20:15, 26 August 2013 (UTC)

South America
This article complete lacks of information about South America; one of the most problematic zones in the world. Does anyone have any good reference data for it? --Mariano (t/c) 08:14, 22 April 2011 (UTC)

WRONG, Can somebody fix this
First sentence of Paragraph: Africa, reads "The highest rate of teenage pregnancy in the world — 143 per 1,000 girls aged 15–19 years — is in sub-Saharan Africa.[3]" this is in direct conflict with the table on the right, which states "Niger: 233"

Can somebody please fix this up? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.91.186.194 (talk) 12:08, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * I don't see the problem. Niger is somewhere between Sahara and sub-Sahara and is considered a sub-Saharan country by the UN. Hans Adler 09:44, 8 February 2013 (UTC)

Adolescent Fertility Rate
The Adolescent Fertility Rate needs to be either included as a section or incorporated into this article. |Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) It is used to measure the Gender Inequality Index, under the reproductive health dimension, which is an article I am in the process of creating. Teashias (talk) 19:43, 31 March 2012 (UTC)

Requested move

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Epidemiology of teenage pregnancy → Prevalence of teenage pregnancy – Teenage pregnancy is a social issue, not a disease. eh bien mon prince (talk) 05:55, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Support. Some medically oriented editors have argued at WT:MED that "epidemiology of X" does not have any negative/disease connotations. I am not a native speaker of English, but it appears to me that that's only true for people with a medical education. Key points for me:
 * A pregnancy counts as a teenage pregnancy according to the article if the birth happens when the mother is under the age of 20. I have checked for the US and Germany that the vast majority (substantially more than three quarters) of teenage pregnancies do not officially count as high-risk pregnancies due to age. (E.g. in the US 3/4 of all teenage pregnancies are birth age 18-19, and even birth age 15 does not count as high risk.) So teenage pregnancy as defined in the article does not make sense as a medical category.
 * Merriam-Webster supports my opinion that most people who hear "epidemiology of X" assume that X is something undesirable, medically problematic, if not a disease. (The construction "epidemiology of X" is only possible with meaning 2.)
 * I expect the reactions of people without serious exposition to medical jargon to various 'epidemiologies' to be roughly as follows (copied from the earlier discussion):
 * "Epidemiology of influenza" - Nothing remarkable, this is the most original meaning: study of epidemies.
 * "Epidemiology of cancer" - "OK, they have widened it a bit. Cancer is not usually considered to be infective and cause epidemies, but they probably don't mean to imply that."
 * "Epidemiology of snakebites" - "Pretty weird. They seem to have widened the meaning of 'epidemiology' quite a bit if they even count accidents now."
 * "Epidemiology of tobacco use" - "Are they seriously applying that word to things that one doesn't go to the doctor for? Amazing."
 * "Epidemiology of pregnancy" - "It's amazing with what misogynist doctors can come up. Since when is pregnancy a disease or pathogen? Quite offensive!"
 * "Epidemiology of teenage pregnancy" - "Oh! Doctors consider teenage pregnancy a disease! I had no idea it's as bad as that. I should have known this a few weeks earlier. Maybe I should ask Dr. ___ whether it wouldn't be better to have an abortion now and try again next year when I'm twenty. What a pity, my husband and I already had a name in case it's a girl! Our parents will also be so disappointed."
 * It appears to me that this possible misunderstanding trumps the relatively minor concern that "prevalence" as a technical term is a bit narrower than "epidemiology". The article goes beyond prevalency in several directions, as is normal for all articles, and not all of these are covered by "epidemiology" either, as many are not even medical in nature. Due to the biologically high cut-off age of 19/20, even the teenage pregnancy statistics are not a medically meaningful number anyway.
 * This is a medical article in the sense that it has significant medical aspects, but certainly not in the sense that it is owned by WikiProject Medicine and the project's naming conventions automatically trump everything else. Hans Adler 10:44, 17 February 2013 (UTC)


 * Mild support without better alternative. The current name is wrong. "Widespreadedness" isn't a word, so I suppose we've got to use the suggested title. Red Slash 22:06, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
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Inaccurrate Title
Most of the article is about birth rates and not pregnancies. So should a title reflect something other than what an article is about. How about calling it Prevalence of teenage births. Another option would be to actually have charts, data and discussions reflecting the title. How about some common sense when choosing titles.172.56.11.127 (talk) 17:35, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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Birth rate for Italy in 1996 wrong
Seems like the figure for teenage birth rate in Italy in 1996 is wrong. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.183.43.118 (talk) 07:12, 1 December 2019 (UTC)