Ecuador: teenage pregnancies, 45,708 births recorded in 2011

Eluniverso.com reported that for that year there were 30,503 mothers in Guayas adolescents 12 to 19 years. Pichincha continued, with 15,810; Manabi, with 13,378, and Rivers, with 9288. Ecuador recorded a total of 122,301 adolescent mothers for that year. There it was established that pregnancy under 14 increased by 74% in the last decade. It is the only figure. In ten years teenage pregnancy in the country increased by 2.3 points, according to a comparative yearbooks births from 2001 to 2011, which exposes the INEC. In 2011 there were 45,708 births to teenage mothers, based on INEC publishes the Yearbook of Births and Deaths of that year. In these sources is annually increasing number of pregnancies in under 12 to 14 years. In 2011 there were 1,559 births to teenage mothers and inscriptions from 12 to 14 years compared to 1358, 2009, and 983 in 2007. Read Article