Number of Thai teen mums second highest within Asean
Poungchompoo Prasert
The Sunday Nation January 5, 2014 1:00 am
Thailand's ratio of young teenage mothers is now the second highest in Asean.
With a pregnancy rate of 54 out of every 100,000 teenage girls under 18, this figure puts the Kingdom just behind the number of young mothers in Laos, a senior official said yesterday.
The figure, based on the National Statistics Office's 2013 report, was also way beyond the World Health Organisation's standard of 15 per 100,000 teenagers. Laos reported a ratio of 56 young mums, according to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Rajanagarindra Institute (CAMRI) director Mathurada Suwannapho.