Cameroon - 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 Cameroon was 98.88 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 197.29 in 1982 and a minimum value of 98.88 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 171.35
1961 173.02
1962 174.70
1963 176.38
1964 178.07
1965 179.75
1966 181.44
1967 183.12
1968 184.46
1969 185.79
1970 187.13
1971 188.47
1972 189.80
1973 190.69
1974 191.57
1975 192.45
1976 193.34
1977 194.22
1978 194.83
1979 195.45
1980 196.06
1981 196.67
1982 197.29
1983 196.12
1984 194.96
1985 193.80
1986 192.64
1987 191.47
1988 188.72
1989 185.96
1990 183.20
1991 180.44
1992 177.68
1993 174.54
1994 171.39
1995 168.24
1996 165.10
1997 161.95
1998 159.56
1999 157.16
2000 154.77
2001 152.38
2002 149.98
2003 146.34
2004 142.70
2005 139.06
2006 135.42
2007 131.78
2008 129.61
2009 127.45
2010 125.29
2011 123.12
2012 120.96
2013 117.93
2014 114.90
2015 111.86
2016 108.83
2017 105.80
2018 103.49
2019 101.19
2020 98.88

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