One in six teenage girls has been pregnant by the age of 18, new figures show. Just under half (46%) decided to keep their baby, while more than a third (36%) had an abortion.
The figures are in a study of 8,500 teenagers for the Department for Education.
More than eight out of ten said they were sexually active and almost one in five of these admit they had been pregnant at least once by the age of 18.
Almost eight in 10 (79%) had been expecting a baby on one occasion, nearly one in five (18%) had been pregnant twice, and 3% had been pregnant at least three times.
Britain has the highest teenage pregnancy rates in western Europe - even though they are at a 20-year low - and last year there were more than 39,000 abortions in girls aged between 15 and 19 in England and Wales.
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