THE Commission on Population and Development (PopCom) vows to further bolster its support for families being supported by young parents as it revealed on its 53rd anniversary celebration that case numbers of adolescent pregnancies have further decreased in 2020.

Based on its analysis sourced from the most recent data in the Philippine Statistics Authority's Civil Registry and Vital Statistics (2019 and 2020), PopCom disclosed on February 18, its foundation date, that the number of registered live births among adolescent mothers ages 10 to 17 significantly dropped nationwide from 2019's 62,510 to 2020's 56,428 — a variance of 6,082, or a 10 percent decrease.