Australia - Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)

The value for Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) in Australia was 10.55 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 48.66 in 1967 and a minimum value of 10.55 in 2020.

Definition: Adolescent fertility rate is the number of births per 1,000 women ages 15-19.

Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects.

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Year Value
1960 44.83
1961 45.07
1962 45.31
1963 45.98
1964 46.65
1965 47.32
1966 47.99
1967 48.66
1968 48.63
1969 48.60
1970 48.56
1971 48.53
1972 48.50
1973 45.17
1974 41.83
1975 38.50
1976 35.17
1977 31.84
1978 30.69
1979 29.54
1980 28.39
1981 27.24
1982 26.09
1983 25.09
1984 24.09
1985 23.10
1986 22.10
1987 21.10
1988 21.06
1989 21.01
1990 20.97
1991 20.92
1992 20.88
1993 20.59
1994 20.31
1995 20.02
1996 19.74
1997 19.45
1998 18.95
1999 18.44
2000 17.93
2001 17.43
2002 16.92
2003 16.96
2004 16.99
2005 17.03
2006 17.06
2007 17.10
2008 16.14
2009 15.18
2010 14.22
2011 13.26
2012 12.30
2013 12.18
2014 12.07
2015 11.95
2016 11.83
2017 11.72
2018 11.33
2019 10.94
2020 10.55

Statistical Concept and Methodology: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Adolescent fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.

Aggregation method: Weighted average

Periodicity: Annual

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health