27.2 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17 in 2005 (41.1 inEngland)
7.4% of live births weighed less than 2,500 grams in 2004 (7.6 per centin England)
4.4 infant deaths under one week per 1,000 women in 2005 (five inEngland)
The conception rate in Gloucestershire has fallen by 34.7 per cent sincefigures were first collected for the teenage pregnancy strategy in 1998.The drop represents 108 fewer girls conceiving. In 1998, 421 girls fellpregnant but in 2005 this number dropped to 313.
Source: Teenage Pregnancy Unit, 2005; Key Population and VitalStatistics 2004 and 2005, Office for National Statistics.
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