Ghana - 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 Ghana was 64.13 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 148.34 in 1960 and a minimum value of 64.13 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 148.34
1961 148.23
1962 148.12
1963 147.69
1964 147.26
1965 146.82
1966 146.39
1967 145.95
1968 145.23
1969 144.51
1970 143.79
1971 143.07
1972 142.35
1973 141.16
1974 139.98
1975 138.79
1976 137.60
1977 136.42
1978 134.80
1979 133.18
1980 131.56
1981 129.94
1982 128.32
1983 126.26
1984 124.20
1985 122.14
1986 120.08
1987 118.02
1988 115.19
1989 112.35
1990 109.51
1991 106.68
1992 103.84
1993 101.21
1994 98.59
1995 95.96
1996 93.34
1997 90.71
1998 88.46
1999 86.21
2000 83.96
2001 81.71
2002 79.47
2003 78.32
2004 77.18
2005 76.03
2006 74.89
2007 73.75
2008 73.35
2009 72.96
2010 72.56
2011 72.17
2012 71.78
2013 70.74
2014 69.71
2015 68.68
2016 67.64
2017 66.61
2018 65.78
2019 64.96
2020 64.13

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