Statistics SA says more than 83,000 school-going girls gave birth in South Africa in the 2019/2020 financial year.
The KwaZulu-Natal province recorded the highest number of child pregnancies with 18,550 births, in girls aged 10 to 17 years.
12,671 births were recorded in the Eastern Cape, 10,833 in Gauteng, 13,129 in Limpopo, and 7,211 in the Western Cape.
The agency also reveals that more than 5,500 children, aged between 10 and 14, gave birth in the 2019/2020 book year in KwaZulu-Natal, the Eastern Cape, Gauteng, Limpopo, and the Western Cape.
