POLICY BRIEF Prevention of teenage pregnancy and its consequences

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On average, the birth rate (expressed as a percentage of total births) for Romanian girls aged 10-14 is 8.5 times higher than the EU average, and the birth rate at 15-19 years is 3.4 times higher than the EU average.

• The birth rate for girls aged 10-14 years old doubled between 1990 and 2020, from 0.18% (percentage of births to girls aged 10-14 in total births in Romania) to 0.37% in 2020.

Between 2011-2019, the average birth rate in teenagers aged 10-14 years old was 0.31%; 23 counties reported a higher rate than the national average for this period (54.8%).

• 1 in 10 children in Romania is born to a teenage mother.

• 1 in 6 teenagers who had a child before the age of 15 will have a second child before the age of 18.