U.S. teen births highest of all industrialized countries.

Live Births per 1,000 females age 15-19 years. Bulgaria 42; U.S. 39; Turkey 39; Romania 31; U.K. 24; Ireland 16; Israel 14; Canada 13; Norway 9; Sweden 8; Germany 8; France 7; Italy 5; Japan 5; Netherland 4. Sources – International data: United Nations Demographic Yearbook 2008 Table 10.

Available from http://unstats.un.org/unsd/demographic/products/dyb/dyb2008.htm. U.S. data: Hamilton BE, Martin JA, Ventura SJ. Births: Preliminary data for 2009. National vital statistics reports; vol 59 no 3. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. 2010.