Mexico City. - The National Population Council (CONAPO) estimates that in 2014 the Mexican population will grow to 119 million 713 thousand 203 inhabitants, 18.2% are teenagers and young people aged 15 to 24 years.
The state with the highest proportion of young people between 15 and 24 years old, Chiapas with 20.3 percent, while the federal state with the lowest proportion of young people is the Federal District with 15.9 percent.
A July 11, 1987 born on the planet dweller 5 billion, which is why the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare this date as the World Population Day in order to reflect on the importance of demographic phenomena as fertility, mortality and migration and its relationship to development; addition, this date invites continuing demographic culture to encourage the participation of people with current demographic challenges.
The commemoration of this date highlights the urgency and importance of addressing various aspects of population and development such as sexual and reproductive health, gender equality, migration, sustainable development and aging.
This year, the issue raised by the Population Fund UN: Invest in Youth, whose purpose is to achieve a world in which every young person to achieve their full potential.
Against this background, access to services and information on reproductive health is essential for young people to strengthen their life plan, choosing freely and responsibly the number of children they have, the spacing of their families and avoid unwanted pregnancies planned and sexually transmitted infections.
The population aged 15 to 24 years in Mexico have their first sexual intercourse at age 17 on average. Currently adolescents (15-19 years) and youth (20-24 years) have an unmet need for contraception 24.8% and 17.9%, respectively, according to the National Survey of Demographic Dynamics (ENADID) 2009.
w HIV / AIDS was the sixth leading cause of death for people 15 to 29 years nationally in 2012
One of the major demographic challenges today is teen pregnancy. According to the ENADID, 27.4% of pregnancies at this stage were unplanned and 12.9% were unwanted. It should be noted that 46.6% of births nationally in 2014 occur in young women aged 15 to 24, according to CONAPO estimates.
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