- 27.2 conceptions per 1,000 girls aged 15 to 17 in 2005 (41.1 inEngland)
- 7.2% of live births weighed less than 2,500 grams in 2004 (7.6 percent in England)
- 4.5 infant deaths under one week per 1,000 women in 2004 (five inEngland)
Gloucestershire's conception rate has fallen by more than a third sincethe figures for the teenage pregnancy strategy were first collected, adrop of 34.7 per cent.
The fall represents 108 fewer girls conceiving. In 1998, 421 girls fellpregnant, but in 2005 this number had fallen to 313.
The level has seen two major drops - the year before the strategy waslaunched and in the last recorded year, above.
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