Based on the Iranian regime’s Census Organization, 1,277 babies were born from mothers under the age of 15 during the first 9 months of this year. Furthermore, these cases reached 1,727 births, which is .1% of all births in Iran during last year (1,471,834).
Provinces such as Sistan-Baluchistan with 462 cases of mothers under the legal age rank the first…
Province | Number of births by mothers under 15 |
Sistan-Baluchistan | 462 |
Khorasan Razavi & Khuzestan | 158 |
East Azerbaijan | 99 |
West Azerbaijan | 90 |
Kerman | 87 |
Isfahan | 10 |
Qom & Kohgiluyeh | 8 |
Qom & Kohgiluyeh | 8 |
Ilam | 5 |
Semnan | 4 |
Southern Khorasan | 3 |
The numbers of births by mothers under the age of 20 have increased to 7% and mothers over the age of 35, to 12.9%. Birth statistics among mothers between the ages of 20 and 34 remains at 80.1%.
(State-run Mehr news agency – January 6, 2015)