Guyana has the second highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in both the Caribbean and South America, with 97 out of every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 giving birth, according to the State of the World Population 2013 report.
The report, put out by the United Nations Popula-tion Fund (UNFPA), said that in South America, Ecuador had the highest rate with 100 15 to 19-year-olds out of every 1,000 getting pregnant. The Dominican Republic was cited as having the highest in the Caribbean, with 98 teens out of every 1,000 getting pregnant.
Earlier this year the Government of Guyana (GoG) had told the United Nations Rights of the Child Committee that
