Percentage of live births to adolescent and young mothers that are unplanned.
Definition:
Ratio between the number of live-born children in the last 5 years who were unplanned at that time and the total number of live-born children in the last 5 years, born to the population aged 15-19 years and 20-29 years.
Note:
This indicator is based on indicator 12.5 of the Operational guide.
Use standard questions included in DHS surveys on pregnancy desirability/planning (categories: “at that time”, “afterwards”, “I didn’t want to have (more) children”) with respect to births in the past 5 years. The under-15 age group was excluded because the notion of desirability of pregnancy for that that age group is conceptually debatable and politically sensitive.
Type
Quantitative
Priority Measures
B.12 - Sexual health and reproductive health
12
Implement comprehensive, timely, good-quality sexual health and reproductive health programmes for adolescents and young people, including youth-friendly sexual health and reproductive health services with a gender, human rights, intergenerational and intercultural perspective, which guarantee access to safe and effective modern contraceptive methods, respecting the principles of confidentiality and privacy, to enable adolescents and young people to exercise their sexual rights and reproductive rights, to have a responsible, pleasurable and healthy sex life, avoid early and unwanted pregnancies, the transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, and to take free, informed and responsible decisions regarding their sexual and reproductive life and the exercise of their sexual orientation.
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