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In a parliamentary response in June 2022, the Minister of Basic Education, Angie Motshekga, revealed that between April 2021 and March 2022, girls aged 10 to 19 had almost 90 000 pregnancies.
Current statistics on adolescent/teenage pregnancy show that there has been a significant increase in young girls falling pregnant since then. These statistics reveal that over 150 000 young girls were pregnant in the 2022/2023 financial year.
These numbers do not factor in variables such as, backstreet abortions, home births, miscarriages and babies whose births are not registered.
Below is an infographic that illustrates the adolescent/teenage pregnancy crisis in South Africa:
