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I didn’t provide it because it is trivially easy to find:

https://www.who.int/health-topics/adolescent-health/pregnanc...

Your perfect dataset probably doesn’t exist. There may be specific countries where something else overshadows it (suicide, a specific disease) due to other conditions or lack of medical care. But we are interested in the effect of education on girls and child marriage and pregnancy, which is not an issue specific to Nigeria anyway.

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The only thing I even saw there was a non data conclusion of the following:

   Pregnancy complications and unsafe abortions are the leading causes of death among 15-19-year-old girls.

18 and 19 year old are adults, and the lions shares of 18 to 19 is periods during which it would be physically impossible to be linked to "childhood pregnancy." 13 and 14 year old "teenage girls" are also excluded from that range.

Is there data here or just a conclusory statement that also is conditioned on adding in some undefined idea of what a unsafe abortion is? The fact it's imperfect is one thing, but not only is the range only a little better than half-correct but I also can't figure out what data source the conclusion comes from.

Right so this is where you can write to the WHO I guess and demand answers, or go search on google scholar and find out.

It's trivially easy to find, but now I have to write the WHO about why their vague statement applies to your entirely different assertion. But we mustn't trust the data showing a general 20x rate of death by infectious disease because it would be presumptuous of us to think that would apply to teenagers well enough that it can overcome maternal mortality.

Truly mind boggling.

That was a joke, because the idea that your conclusion spitballed by an amateur in an hour is more valid than one published by the WHO is a joke.

The WHO didnt even make your claim. Yours is based on nothing, not even a spitball (or even an appeal to authority of the WHO since thats not what they said), which i did because you cited absolutely nothing when you asserted it. And now you want me to bear an entirely different standard of evidence than what you set. Dont dish out what you can't take -- your entire argument is a bald faced fabrication.

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