North Dakota

North Dakota does not require sex education in public schools, even though 43 percent of its high school students report ever having had sex.

Sex Education Policy

North Dakota has no law requiring sex education in schools or regulating its content if taught – it has not taken the necessary action to guarantee accurate, comprehensive sex ed for its students.

Health Outcomes

North Dakota has among the lowest teen pregnancy, AIDS, and STIs in the nation.

Sexual Health Stats at a Glance

	Teen Pregnancy Rate*	Teen Birth Rate*	Annual rate of AIDS Diagnoses (per 100,000 people)	STI Rate⁺	% of high school students who did not use a condom at last sex
North Dakota	45	27.9	2.2	31.5	Not reported
National	70	39.1	11.2	100.8	39

*Per 1000 young women ages 15-19
+Because of concern over recent changes in Chlamydia reporting and relative low incidence of syphilis, we used the state's gonorrhea rate as a stand-in for sexually transmitted infection rates.