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Originally Posted by Ultenth
While those things are important, and do actually help, a large portion of why certain countries (sweden, japan, the swiss, netherlands, etc.) are low in teen pregnancy is because they are simply countries where there is a large amount of old people, and not many young people. If you want a true picture you need to take teen pregnancy rate per actual amount of teenagers, not just general population.
Seriously, compare the countries that are low teen pregnancy with those that are the oldest in median age, and you'll find the lists to be nearly identical. Which is also why in some of those countries, especially Japan, there is actually a large worry of a dramatic population decrease due to low birth rates.
Your point is still valid in some ways, but the information with which you tried to increase it's strength was not.
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You have a healthy skeptism for everything. Unfortunately, teenage pregnancy rate is generally measured as a number against the number of young women under 20 experiencing a pregnancy. Statisticians are not idiots, nor are they out to get you with false infomation.