10 Interesting Stats on Sexual activity, Fertility, Therapeutic abortions, Sexually transmitted infections, and AIDS
- An estimated 12% of boys and 13% of girls have had sexual intercourse
by ages 14 or 15, according to a new study based on data that the
teenagers reported to a national survey. - About 44% of sexually active 20- to 24-year-olds reported sex without
a condom, compared with 33% of those aged 18 to 19,
and 22% of those aged 15 to 17. - close to 4% According to CCHS data that 15- to 24-year-olds who had had sex at least once, reported having
been diagnosed with a STD. The true figure is likely higher than reported
because of a possible lack of symptoms or awareness. - Those who had had sexual intercourse by age 13 were more than twice as
likely to report an STD than those who had waited until they were older. - At ages 12 or 13, 26% of boys and 31% of girls
reported that they had tried smoking cigarettes. Within two years, over
one-quarter of this group reported that they had had intercourse. - From ages 15-19, 510 people were diagnosed with AIDS.
- 24,088 AIDS diagnoses were among adult and adolescent males, 7,949 were among
adult and adolescent females, and 15 diagnoses were among children aged less
than 13 years. - The number of abortions in Canada that was reported in 2010 is 64,641.
- In Canada in 2011 there were 377,636 births.
- According to their estimates, up to 16% of heterosexual couples where the woman
is age 18-to-44 are experiencing infertility — a near doubling since the
previous time infertility was measured in the nation in 1992.