Basic Profile of Early Childbirth in Mauritania
Measures of early childbirth are high in Mauritania. The share of women ages 18-22 who had a child before 18 is 19.8 percent, but it has decreased over time. The share of girls who had a child before the age of 15, at 6.3 percent, has also decrease...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2016/06/26489550/basic-profile-early-childbirth-mauritania http://hdl.handle.net/10986/24563 |
| Summary: | Measures of early childbirth are high in
Mauritania. The share of women ages 18-22 who had a child
before 18 is 19.8 percent, but it has decreased over time.
The share of girls who had a child before the age of 15, at
6.3 percent, has also decreased. Early childbirth is
associated with lower wealth, lower education levels, and
employment without cash earnings. These are however only
correlations, not necessarily causal effects. In order to
design programs and policies to reduce the prevalence of
early childbirth, information is needed on its trend over
time, where it is most prevalent in a country, and what the
characteristics of girls giving birth early are. |
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