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Based on data from the Alan Guttmacher Institute, Canada's teenage pregnancy rate is ranked as moderate, compared with other western industrialized countries.14 The Alan Guttmacher Institute is an independent, not-for-profit organization in the United States, whose mandate is to inform individual decision-making, encourage scientific inquiry and enlightened public debate, and promote the formation of sound public- and private-sector programs and policies related to sexual behaviour, reproduction and family formation.15
International comparisons of teenage pregnancy rates, 1994, 1995 or 1996
Data sources: Alan Guttmacher Institute and Reference 14
Note: These rates do not include fetal loss; pregnancies are calculated here as the sum of live births and abortions.
