Ghana continues to record higher rates of AP. Recent national report shows that 11% of adolescents aged 15–19 years had had a live birth, of which 3% are pregnant with first child and 14% had begun childbearing (15).
Teenage pregnancy remains a big challenge in Ghana and data from the annual
Ghana Health Service (GHS) statistics on this is very alarming.
This data shows that in 2020 nearly 301 girls are impregnated every day in Ghana while
13 teenage pregnancies recorded every one hour.
According to the GHS, Ghana recorded a total of 109888 teen pregnancies with the lowest girls to be put in the family way being ten-year-olds.
Per the data, girls between the ages of 10 and 14 years account for 2,865 pregnancies recorded in 2020 whiles another 107,023 girls between the ages of 15-19 were impregnated within the same year.
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