Malawi 2015-16

Table 5.10 Median age at first birth
Median age at first birth among women age 20-49 and
25-49, according to background characteristics, Malawi
DHS 2015-16
Background
characteristic
Women age
20-49
Women age
25-49
Residence
Urban a 19.9
Rural 18.9 18.9
Region
Northern 18.9 18.9
Central 19.6 19.5
Southern 18.7 18.6
Education
No education 18.5 18.6
Primary 18.6 18.6
Secondary a 20.7
More than secondary a 24.9
Wealth quintile
Lowest 18.9 19.0
Second 18.8 18.8
Middle 18.8 18.7
Fourth 19.0 18.9
Highest a 19.9
Total 19.1 19.0
a = Omitted because less than 50% of the women had
a birth before reaching the beginning of the age group.
Table 5.11 Teenage pregnancy and motherhood
Percentage of women age 15-19 who had a live birth or who are pregnant with their first child, and
percentage who have begun childbearing, according to background characteristics, Malawi DHS
2015-16
Background
characteristic
Percentage of women
age 15-19 who:
Have had a live
birth
Are pregnant
with first child
Percentage who
have begun
childbearing
Number of
women
Age
15-17 9.3 4.3 13.6 3,158
15 3.1 1.5 4.5 1,250
16 8.3 3.8 12.2 940
17 18.2 8.4 26.6 967
18 34.6 11.0 45.6 1,073
19 49.1 10.0 59.2 1,033
Residence
Urban 16.2 5.0 21.3 918
Rural 23.5 7.2 30.7 4,345
Region
Northern 23.3 8.8 32.1 590
Central 19.1 6.4 25.4 2,260
Southern 25.0 6.7 31.6 2,413
Education
No education 46.7 7.4 54.1 137
Primary 24.8 7.5 32.2 3,704
Secondary 13.6 5.0 18.6 1,401
More than secondary * * * 21
Wealth quintile
Lowest 34.3 9.3 43.6 962
Second 27.9 6.9 34.8 1,004
Middle 22.8 7.6 30.5 1,047
Fourth 17.7 7.0 24.7 1,017
Highest 11.5 3.8 15.3 1,233
Total 22.2 6.8 29.0 5,263
Note: An asterisk indicates that a figure is based on fewer than 25 unweighted cases and has
been suppressed.
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