Korea - 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 Korea was 1.20 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 32.49 in 1960 and a minimum value of 1.20 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 32.49
1961 30.97
1962 29.45
1963 27.40
1964 25.36
1965 23.32
1966 21.27
1967 19.23
1968 17.96
1969 16.68
1970 15.41
1971 14.14
1972 12.86
1973 13.24
1974 13.62
1975 14.00
1976 14.37
1977 14.75
1978 14.26
1979 13.77
1980 13.28
1981 12.78
1982 12.29
1983 11.11
1984 9.93
1985 8.75
1986 7.57
1987 6.39
1988 5.94
1989 5.48
1990 5.02
1991 4.57
1992 4.11
1993 3.87
1994 3.64
1995 3.40
1996 3.16
1997 2.93
1998 2.78
1999 2.63
2000 2.48
2001 2.34
2002 2.19
2003 2.15
2004 2.11
2005 2.08
2006 2.04
2007 2.00
2008 1.95
2009 1.91
2010 1.86
2011 1.81
2012 1.77
2013 1.69
2014 1.61
2015 1.53
2016 1.46
2017 1.38
2018 1.32
2019 1.26
2020 1.20

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