Jurnal Aisyah: Jurnal Ilmu Kesehatan Volume 7, Issue 1, March 2022, p. 337–346 ISSN 2502-4825 (print), ISSN 2502-9495 (online) Available online at: https://aisyah.journalpress.id/index.php/jika/ Email: jurnal.aisyah@gmail.com Outcomes of Teenage Pregnancy in Developing Countries: A Scoping Review Cindy Putri Febrianti 1*) ; Andari Wuri Astuti 1 1 Midwifery Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, Universitas ‘Aisyiyah Yogyakarta ARTICLE INFO A B S T R A C T Article history: Received 11 November 2021 Accepted 21 February 2022 Published 10 March 2022 Teenage pregnancy is a health problem that impacts not just physical changes but also psychological, social, and economic ones. These numerous impacts can harm both the health and well-being of teenagers and affect the health quality of a country. This research aimed to point out and explore scientific evidence related to the impact of pregnancy on teenagers in developing countries. The scoping review method from the 2021 PRISMAScR checklist framework was adopted in this review. Pubmed, Wiley Online Library, EBSCO, Proquest, and grey literature were used as the databases and accessed through the Google Scholar search engine by filtering articles published from 2016 to 2021. There were 10 of the 630 articles screened by inclusion and exclusion criteria found in this review. It showed various impacts, such as physiological, psychological, social, and economic. This review found that the impacts of teenage pregnancy are linked to many factors, including physical changes and all aspects of life lived by teenagers, such as school, work, parenting, and socializing in their neighborhood. Early sexual education must be carried out not just at school but also at home, where the beginning of the educational process happens. Keyword: Teenage Pregnancy Impact Scoping review This open access article is under the CC–BY-SA license. INTRODUCTION According to the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF), teenage pregnancy is defined as pregnancy among girls aged 13–19 years. Teenage pregnancy is a global problem. About 21 million pregnancies in teenagers aged 15-19 years occur in developing countries every year. Half of these pregnancies are undesirable, and more than half of them end in abortions. Most of these abortions are illegal (Mezmur et al., 2021). In 2012, the World Health Organization (WHO) stated that 16 million births, or 11% of all births in the world, occurred to mothers aged 15–19 years, the majority of which 95% occurred in developing countries (Darroch et al., 2016). In Latin America and the Caribbean, 29% of young women are married when they are 18 years old. The highest prevalence of teenage marriage cases was recorded in Nigeria at 79%; Congo at 74%; Afghanistan at 54%, and Bangladesh at 51% (Kyari & Ayodele, 2014). Teenage pregnancies (10-19 years) are riskier than reproductive women. Babies born to teenage mothers have a 50% higher risk of complications and mortality rates than adult mothers (20-29 years). In addition, babies born to teenage mothers are more likely to be born prematurely, have low birth weight, and have anemia (Astuti et al., 2020). However, the high risk of stillbirth in teenage pregnancy needs to be researched further, whether it is due to maternal factors, the mother's first pregnancy, or both (Yussif et al., 2017) Complications associated with pregnancy and childbirth are considered the major cause of mortality among teenagers in developing countries. More than half of maternal deaths globally are caused by bleeding, gestational hypertension, and sepsis (Kassa et al., 2021)). Teenagers at an early age will experience prolonged trauma, a crisis of confidence, an unwillingness to become parents, being single parents, negative stigma, and divorce (Uyun & Saputra, 2011). Teenage pregnancy presents a high health risk for both the teen and the baby. Generally, complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the main causes of mortality for teenage girls aged 15-19 years (Neal et al., 2012). These are global problems that get attention even in developed countries. Especially in developing countries, it accounts for 99% of maternal deaths, but government funds are not usually available for these problems (Lemon, 2016; Neal et al., 2012). Teenage pregnancy is very detrimental to many people in developing countries. To prevent the impact of teenage pregnancy, especially in developing countries, changes in public policy are one of the efforts that governments can make, including improving the