Blandón Luis, Carballo Palma Luis, Wulf Deirdre, Remez Lisa, Prada Elena, Drescher Joanna
Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos.
Issues Brief (Alan Guttmacher Inst). 2006 Sep(3):1-24. Epub 2006 Oct 17.
(1) Among Nicaraguan women 20-24 years old, six in 10 had entered a union and almost half had had a child before their 20th birthday. (2) A quarter of all births in Nicaragua--35,000 per year--are to 15-19-year-olds. (3) Rural women, who have less education, on average, than their urban counterparts, are more likely than city dwellers to enter a union and become mothers during adolescence. (4) The proportion of 20-24-year-olds who had a child during adolescence is more than twice as high among the poorest as among those in the highest socioeconomic category. (5) Nearly half--45%--of births to adolescent women are unplanned, a level that varies little by women's urban-rural residence and their educational achievement. (6) Among all sexually active women aged 15-19 (in union and not in union), 86% do not want a child in the next two years, and 36% have an unmet need for effective contraception. Unmet need for family planning is equally high in urban and rural areas. (7) The strong link between low educational attainment and early motherhood suggests that improving educational opportunities for girls is a promising way of reducing high levels of adolescent childbearing in Nicaragua.
（1）在尼加拉瓜20至24岁的女性中，十分之六的人已结婚，近一半的人在20岁生日前就已生育。（2）尼加拉瓜每年四分之一的新生儿——3.5万例——是由15至19岁的少女所生。（3）农村女性平均受教育程度低于城市女性，她们比城市居民更有可能在青春期结婚并生育。（4）在最贫困的20至24岁女性中，青春期生育的比例是社会经济地位最高群体的两倍多。（5）近一半（45%）的少女分娩是意外怀孕，这一比例在城乡女性以及不同教育程度的女性中差异不大。（6）在所有15至19岁有性行为的女性（无论是否结婚）中，86%的人在未来两年内不想生育，36%的人有未满足的有效避孕需求。城乡地区的计划生育未满足需求同样高。（7）低教育程度与早育之间的紧密联系表明，改善女孩的教育机会是降低尼加拉瓜青少年高生育率的一种可行方法。
