The figures, released this week by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), confirmed that pregnancy rates for young people aged under-18 in England and Wales have continued to fall.
The under-18 conception rate for 2014 is the lowest since 1969 at 22.9 conceptions per 1,000 women aged 15 to 17. The number of conceptions fell to 22,653 in 2014 compared with 24,306 in 2013 – down 6.8 per cent.
For young women aged under-16, the conception rate for 2014 stands at 4.4 per 1,000. There were 4,160 conceptions in 2014, compared with 4,648 in 2013 – a fall of 10 per cent.
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