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 "title": "Under-18 conception rate, England and Wales",
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 "summary": "Conceptions to women aged under 18 per 1,000 women in England and Wales, and in England and Wales apart, each year since 2010, with the number of conceptions and the share that ended in abortion, from the ONS.",
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  "Conceptions are pregnancies that led to a birth or to a legal abortion, dated to conception and placed by the woman's usual residence. The under-18 rate is the ONS's own, per 1,000 women in the age group; the ONS rounds every count to the nearest five and calculates its rates and percentages after rounding.",
  "The Office for National Statistics publishes these as accredited official statistics."
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    "2010": 34635.0,
    "2011": 31050.0,
    "2012": 27835.0,
    "2013": 24305.0,
    "2014": 22655.0,
    "2015": 20350.0,
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    "2011": 29165.0,
    "2012": 26155.0,
    "2013": 22830.0,
    "2014": 21280.0,
    "2015": 19080.0,
    "2016": 17025.0,
    "2017": 15750.0,
    "2018": 14735.0,
    "2019": 14020.0,
    "2020": 11880.0,
    "2021": 12360.0,
    "2022": 13425.0,
    "2023": 13540.0
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    "2011": 1885.0,
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    "2013": 1475.0,
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    "2015": 50.8,
    "2016": 51.5,
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    "2019": 54.4,
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    "2021": 53.3,
    "2022": 58.0,
    "2023": 61.4
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    "2012": 49.1,
    "2013": 51.1,
    "2014": 51.2,
    "2015": 51.2,
    "2016": 51.9,
    "2017": 52.0,
    "2018": 53.0,
    "2019": 54.7,
    "2020": 53.0,
    "2021": 53.4,
    "2022": 58.2,
    "2023": 61.5
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    "2010": 44.5,
    "2011": 41.9,
    "2012": 43.3,
    "2013": 45.4,
    "2014": 46.0,
    "2015": 44.1,
    "2016": 44.3,
    "2017": 47.0,
    "2018": 50.0,
    "2019": 50.0,
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    "2021": 51.3,
    "2022": 53.7,
    "2023": 59.8
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  "value": 13.6,
  "period": "2023",
  "note": "14,390 conceptions to women aged under 18"
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