The Kenya Bureau of Statistics has released a new Demographic and Health Survey whose content revealed the top five counties that are leading with cases of teenage pregnancies.
This is the 7th demographic and health survey conducted in Kenya. The first one was in 1989.
In this year’s survey, conducted between February 17 to July 13, the bureau targeted females aged 15 to 49 and males 15 to 54 years.
KNBS Director General Macdonald Obudho said a number of variables were measured including the breakdown of health insurance coverage in urban and rural areas.
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According to the survey, Samburu leads in teenage pregnancy at 50 per cent, West Pokot at 36 per cent, Marsabit at 29 per cent and Narok at 28 per cent and Meru at 24 per cent.
The survey also highlighted that teenage pregnancy is at 15 overall.
Of this percentage girls without education account for 38 per cent, girls with primary education 20 per cent and those with a University education account 5 per cent.
The survey also shows that Kenya’s fertility rate has dropped further to 3.4 children per woman from 3.9 in 2014.
At its most basic, fertility rate measures the average number of children that women of childbearing age give birth to in a given country.
As a comparison, Niger has the highest fertility rate in Africa at a rate of 6.9 per cent according to World Population Review.
