South Africa - 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 South Africa was 67.73 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 111.01 in 1982 and a minimum value of 65.75 in 2002.

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 79.29
1961 80.59
1962 81.89
1963 83.24
1964 84.59
1965 85.94
1966 87.29
1967 88.65
1968 90.33
1969 92.02
1970 93.71
1971 95.40
1972 97.09
1973 98.45
1974 99.81
1975 101.17
1976 102.53
1977 103.89
1978 105.31
1979 106.74
1980 108.16
1981 109.59
1982 111.01
1983 109.86
1984 108.71
1985 107.55
1986 106.40
1987 105.25
1988 102.26
1989 99.28
1990 96.29
1991 93.30
1992 90.32
1993 87.67
1994 85.03
1995 82.38
1996 79.73
1997 77.08
1998 74.82
1999 72.55
2000 70.28
2001 68.02
2002 65.75
2003 66.05
2004 66.35
2005 66.66
2006 66.96
2007 67.26
2008 68.20
2009 69.15
2010 70.09
2011 71.03
2012 71.98
2013 71.16
2014 70.35
2015 69.54
2016 68.72
2017 67.91
2018 67.85
2019 67.79
2020 67.73

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