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The number of teenage pregnancies varies greatly across Europe: the difference between the lowest and the highest rate is up to eightfold. However, decreasing numbers of teenage pregnancy is a universal tendency across Europe: a decrease of 27–84 per cent between 1980 and 2000. We find only three countries (Republic of Moldova, Lithuania and Belarus) where the number of teenage pregnacies has risen during this period and only one European country (United Kingdom) where the rate remained the same. The decrease of teenage pregnancy can be explained by some complex, mutually related demographic, social and educational reasons.
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Tóth, O. (2006). Teenage Pregnancy. In: Women’s Reproductive Rights. Women’s Rights in Europe Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230554993_5
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