In 2017, Bulgaria and Romania recorded the highest shares of births of first children to young mothers aged below 20 (12.5% and 12.1%) respectively. They were followed by Hungary (8.5%) and Slovakia (8.1%). The European average lies at 3.7%.
The story is a different one in Denmark, Italy, Slovenia, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, where young mothers accounted for less than 2% of first births.
