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According to the Commission on Population and Development (PopCom), the number of adolescents giving birth in 2020 will be lower by 23,855.

Births by mothers under the age of 19 reached 180,915 in 2019, up from 157,060 the previous year.

The fall was concentrated in the 15 to 19-year-old age group, with 23,557 mothers accounting for 98.7% of the drop.

The daily birth rate for those aged 15 to 19 was 425, down from 489.

According to PopCom, a Philippine Statistics Authority estimate, adolescent birth rates were 31 per 1,000 girls in 2020, down from 47 per 1,000 in the 2017 National Demographic Health Survey (NDHS).

The Philippine Development Plan aims for a rate of 37 per 1,000 people, whereas PopCom aims for a 50% drop from the 2013 NDHS baseline of 57 percent to 28 percent by 2022.

In an online briefing, PopCom Executive Director Juan Antonio Perez III said, “This is good news for us and our partners who have been advocating for a reduction in teen pregnancies, as well as the health, population, and local government units’ social workers who stepped up their services in adolescent health to achieve this result.”

The decline was 12 percent in the 10 to 14 age range, or very young teenagers, with daily births falling to six from seven in 2019.

“Parents and their adolescent children have internalized a greater understanding of the problem of teen pregnancies in terms of the health and well-being of girls who have minor children,” Perez added.

“The year-over-year drop demonstrates that things are slowly changing for our young ladies,” says the report “

Executive Order (EO) 141, signed by President Rodrigo Duterte on June 25, 2021, and set to take effect this year, outlines a comprehensive action plan to prevent adolescent pregnancies.

The decree establishes steps to address the root causes of the rising number of young Filipinos giving birth as a national policy.

“The State shall deploy existing coordinative and legislative measures relating to adolescent pregnancy prevention.” “It also includes programs for adolescent pregnancy prevention, such as comprehensive sexuality education, education and employment possibilities for young people, as well as health promotion through media and communication platforms,” according to EO 141.

According to Perez, the EO’s successes “would convince government agencies involved in the plan that change is achievable in the future years, with an additional extension of current programs and increased social protection for people who have started families at a young age.”

“Now is the time to act, not tomorrow,” says the author “Added he.

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