Countries: Malawi
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"In Mchinji District, where Ludzi Girls school is located, 33% of girls are reported to fall pregnant before they reach 18, and leave education" (para 9). "The BBC visited a legal clinic under a makeshift tent in a village in Mchinji district - it had more than 1,000 attendees, mostly women. Some were pregnant teenagers, asking what they could do to stay in school after giving birth" (para 26).

Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"The ONS report showed the average age of fathers increased to 33.8, while the average of mothers remained stable at 30.9" (para 34).

Countries: India
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"By the age of 17, I had two kids,' she said" (para 25). "She was forced into the order after the death of her mother and was 13 when a 30-year-old man took her virginity. She fell pregnant soon after. 'A normal delivery was difficult. The doctor yelled at my family, saying that I was too young to give birth,' the 45-year-old told AFP. 'I had no understanding' (para 27-28).

Countries: Costa Rica
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"With regard to the health of adolescent girls and women, there has been significant progress in reducing the teenage pregnancy rate, which fell from 29.8 in 2013 to 21.5 in 2018. The coordination of such important inter-institutional and intersectoral efforts as the Meso-American Health Project, the Ministry of Education’s programme on emotional relations and sexuality, the expansion of the coverage of the Comprehensive Approach to Teenage Pregnancy Programme within the framework of the Teenage Mother Care Council and regulatory changes to protect girls and young women from improper relationships could be contributing to a cultural change of greater protection and support for girls and young women, in which the reduction...more

Countries: Peru
Variables: CBMC-DATA-1, MABFC-DATA-1

"Childbearing among girls aged between 10 and 14 has steadily risen in recent years. There was a 14% increase between 2021 and 2022, according to the UN Population Fund’s map of adolescent pregnancy and motherhood in Peru" (para 17).

Countries: Afghanistan
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"For Zainab, 17, who was married two years ago in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, the ban on contraceptives was a shock when she was told by her midwife last week. Zainab, who has an 18-month-old daughter, is worried…" (para 11-12). This means she had her first child while she was only 15 years old (MB2-CODER COMMENT).

Countries: India
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"Because girls typically marry young, many have children in their teens" (para 26).

Countries: Kenya
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"Adolescent pregnancy is an issue in Kenya, too, where 15% of adolescent girls become mothers before the age of 18. Girls from the poorest households are more likely to become mothers than girls from the richest households" (para 5).

Countries: Malaysia
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"Deteriorating conditions in Myanmar and in neighboring Bangladesh’s refugee camps are driving scores of underage Rohingya girls to Malaysia for arranged marriages with Rohingya men who frequently abuse them, The Associated Press found in interviews with 12 young Rohingya brides who have arrived in Malaysia since 2022. The youngest was 13. All the girls interviewed by the AP said they are held hostage by controlling husbands who rarely let them outside. Several said they were beaten and raped by traffickers and other men during the journey to Malaysia, and five said they were abused by their husbands. Half the girls are pregnant or already have babies, despite most saying they...more

Countries: Malawi
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"Tamara was 12 years old and expecting a baby" (para 15). "The last time we visit, at least two pregnant teenage girls from the village - with arms full of vegetables - say hi to Tamara before heading back home" (para 54).

Countries: United Kingdom
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"The 40-year-old [Conservative MP Miriam Cates], who has a degree in genetics from Cambridge and worked as a biology teacher, said that fewer that half of women have a baby before 30" (6).

Countries: Belize
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1, BR-DATA-1

"In 2019, the birth rate was at 58.2 per 1,000 for women aged 15-19 years indicating a high birth rate among adolescence" (4).

Countries: Guatemala
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"With regard to pregnancies among children and adolescents under 14 years of age, the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare reported a decline by 810 cases between 2017 and 2021" (12).

Countries: Central African Rep
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

"10,546 deliveries by adolescent mothers aged 10–24 years" (14).

Countries: South Korea
Variables: MABFC-DATA-1

“Women who do not want to sacrifice their careers are now simply choosing not to have children. South Korea's fertility rate (the average number of children a woman will have in her lifetime) has fallen to 0.81, the lowest in the world. Its population is predicted to halve by the end of the century, meaning it may not have enough people to sustain its economy and conscript into its army” (para 32). If women are abstaining from having children in favor of a career, it would logically follow that many women delay birth of children in favor of a career (ET - CODER COMMENT).