The number of teenage pregnancies in Mexico remains alarming, the government acknowledges: cases involving girls are “forced fertility”

The Mexican government, through the Secretariat of the SIPINNA, has acknowledged that teenage pregnancy rates remain at alarming levels in the country. Authorities have formally categorized cases of pregnancy in girls aged 10 to 14 as "forced fertility," highlighting that a recent decrease in births within this specific age group does not erase the ongoing systemic reality.

Simultaneously, regional data indicates shifting trends in adolescent fertility. In Costa Rica, the adolescent fertility rate among girls and adolescents aged 12 to 17 rose slightly in 2025 to 5.3 births per 1,000, reversing a prior multi-year downward trend despite remaining well below levels recorded in the previous decade.