Question: has teenage pregnancy increased in the uk?
Answer: Figures released today by the Office for National Statistics show that, in 2016, overall teenage pregnancy rates were the lowest since records began in 1969. Conception rates for women aged 15 to 17 in England and Wales were 18.9 per 1,000 – a 9.6% fall since 2015, and a 60% drop since 1998.