Kenya recorded a drop in the number of teenage pregnancies in 2024, the Economic Survey 2025 shows.
The report was released on Tuesday by the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS).
According to the report, adolescents aged 10 to 19 presenting with pregnancy at their first antenatal care (ANC) visit declined by 4.8 per cent to 241, 228 in 2024.
In 2023, a total of 110,821 pregnancies were recorded among adolescents aged between the ages of 10 to 19 in the first five months of 2023.
Data from the Kenya Health Information Systems showed a total of 6,110 were among adolescents aged between 10 to 14 years, while another 104,711 were between the ages of 15 and 19.
This is almost half of what was recorded in 2022, which stood at 260,734.
The pregnancies were 316,187 in 2021 and 331,549 in 2020.
The KNBS report shows that younger teenagers aged 10 to 14 recorded a decline in 2024, with the number falling by 14.4 per cent to 10,126.
