School girl dropouts, pregnancies persist: ZimStat

MORE girls are dropping out of school compared to boys at secondary school level, while child pregnancies continue to dog Mashonaland Central and the Midlands provinces as they struggle to curb the scourge, the Zimbabwe National Statistics Agency (ZimStat) has said.

Speaking during a workshop in Bulawayo on the 2022 Population and Housing Census Provincial Profiles; District data sheets and Provincial GDP Dissemination, ZimStat representative Tawanda Chingozha said Mashonaland Central and Midlands are grappling with persistently high rates of teen pregnancies.

“Looking at the Progress Index Calculation, these provinces are the least performers across the country,” he said.

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