Jamaica - 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 Jamaica was 48.44 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 171.31 in 1967 and a minimum value of 48.44 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 150.05
1961 153.47
1962 156.89
1963 159.78
1964 162.66
1965 165.54
1966 168.42
1967 171.31
1968 168.43
1969 165.55
1970 162.67
1971 159.80
1972 156.92
1973 152.33
1974 147.73
1975 143.14
1976 138.55
1977 133.96
1978 131.37
1979 128.78
1980 126.19
1981 123.60
1982 121.01
1983 118.07
1984 115.13
1985 112.19
1986 109.26
1987 106.32
1988 104.59
1989 102.85
1990 101.12
1991 99.39
1992 97.66
1993 96.88
1994 96.10
1995 95.32
1996 94.54
1997 93.76
1998 91.80
1999 89.85
2000 87.89
2001 85.94
2002 83.98
2003 81.99
2004 80.00
2005 78.01
2006 76.02
2007 74.03
2008 71.37
2009 68.72
2010 66.06
2011 63.41
2012 60.75
2013 59.15
2014 57.56
2015 55.96
2016 54.36
2017 52.76
2018 51.32
2019 49.88
2020 48.44

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