Among the cohort of 3,501 pregnant women,there were 464 women under 20 years of age. Accordingly teenagers represented 13.3% of all pregnancies. The highest percentage of teenage pregnancies (i.e.18%) was found in the district from the northeast region Table 1
Most teenage mothers (68.8%) were 18 to 19 years of age, while 26.1% were 16 to 17 years old and 5.1% were 14 to 15 years old. Teenage mothers gave birth to a higher proportion of very low birth weight infants than did adult mothers (i.e. 15.1% and 8.8% respectively).