By John Chilibeck Local Journalism Initiative Reporter New Brunswick still has one of the highest rates of teens giving birth in Canada, despite its overall fertility rate at the national average. In a new Statistics Canada report on the nation’s fertility, the data show that the proportion of New Brunswick’s teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19 giving birth is almost twice the national average. For the most recent year examined, 2022, seven New Brunswick teens gave birth for every 1,000 of them. That compares to 4.4 giving birth per 1,000 teens nation-wide. Out of 13 provinces and territories, New Brunswick’s rate was the ninth highest. Only Manitoba (9.2), Northwest Territories (12.3), Saskatchewan (14.4) and Nunavut (67.2) were higher. The lowest was in British Columbia, at 2.7. “When it…
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