People, population and community The under-18 conception rate in 2016 was 18.9 conceptions per thousand women aged 15 to 17; this is the lowest rate recorded since comparable statistics were first produced in 1969. The estimated number of conceptions to women aged under 18 fell to 18,076 in 2016, compared with 20,351 in 2015, a decrease of 11%.
The estimated number of conceptions to women aged under 16 fell to 2,821 in 2016, compared with 3,466 in 2015, a decrease of 19%. In 2016 there were an estimated 862,785 conceptions to women of all ages, compared with 876,934 in 2015, a decrease of 1.6%. Conception rates in 2016 decreased for women in all age groups, except for those aged 40 years and over where the rate increased by 2.0%. The percentage of conceptions leading to a legal abortion in 2016 increased for women in all age groups since 2015 apart from women aged 40 and over. | 
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