Philippines only country in Asia where teen pregnancy rising

Thursday, July 7, 2016 - 05:31 in Mathematics & Economics

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- The Philippines is the only Asia-Pacific country where the rate of teen pregnancies rose over the last two decades and the slow decline of its overall fertility rate may deprive the country of the faster economic growth expected in places that have more working-age people than younger and older dependents, the U.N. Population Fund said Thursday....

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