Table 16.2

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Teen Pregnancy, Birth, and Abortion Rates

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	Adolescent abortion rate	Adolescent pregnancy rate	Adolescent birth rate
Canada	15.5	45.4	24.2
France	12.4	51.2	10.0
Finland	10.0	52.9	9.8
Germany	7.6	23.0	12.5
Ireland	5.9	21.9	15.0
Israel	14.2	35.3	18.0
Japan	13.8	61.9	3.9
Sweden	18.7	69.6	7.7
United States	22.9	83.6	54.4
Switzerland	8.4	21.1	5.7

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Notes: "Abortion rate" is legal abortions per 1,000 residents aged 15-19. "Pregnancy rate" equals pregnancies per 1,000 women aged 15-19. "Birth rate" equals births per 1,000 women aged 15-19.

Source: Alan Guttmacher Institute, from country data. Swiss data on adolescent pregnancy calculated by author from Swiss data.