Many adolescents are sexually active and are affected by unplanned pregnancies.
Worldwide, more than 15 million girls ages 15-19 give birth each year, and more than 2 million have unsafe abortions. An average of 40 percent of women in developing countries gives birth before age 20. In developed countries, only 10 percent on average give birth during adolescence. In the United States 19 percent of young women do so. In the United States, seven in ten births to adolescents are unplanned.