Fewer young parents

Births to mothers aged between 20 and 24 years decreased from 1,100 to 661 between 1997 and 2005 while births to fathers in the same age bracket fell by 227 to 246, the National Statistics Office said. The average total deaths per year of persons aged...

Births to mothers aged between 20 and 24 years decreased from 1,100 to 661 between 1997 and 2005 while births to fathers in the same age bracket fell by 227 to 246, the National Statistics Office said.

The average total deaths per year of persons aged 15 to 24 between 1997 and 2005 was 25, of which 72 per cent were males.

On the occasion of the UN's International Youth Day, today, the NSO said that in 2005 there were 21 deaths of persons aged between 15 to 24 of which 38.1 per cent were caused by transport accidents.

Nearly 88.0 per cent of the registered deaths among youths due to transport accidents during 2004 occurred to males.

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