New Zealand - 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 New Zealand was 17.27 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 67.01 in 1967 and a minimum value of 17.27 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 59.43
1961 58.77
1962 58.10
1963 59.89
1964 61.67
1965 63.45
1966 65.23
1967 67.01
1968 66.61
1969 66.21
1970 65.81
1971 65.41
1972 65.01
1973 60.80
1974 56.59
1975 52.38
1976 48.18
1977 43.97
1978 41.74
1979 39.52
1980 37.29
1981 35.06
1982 32.84
1983 32.64
1984 32.45
1985 32.25
1986 32.06
1987 31.86
1988 32.17
1989 32.48
1990 32.78
1991 33.09
1992 33.40
1993 32.69
1994 31.98
1995 31.28
1996 30.57
1997 29.86
1998 29.23
1999 28.61
2000 27.98
2001 27.35
2002 26.72
2003 27.40
2004 28.07
2005 28.75
2006 29.43
2007 30.10
2008 28.67
2009 27.23
2010 25.80
2011 24.36
2012 22.93
2013 22.20
2014 21.47
2015 20.73
2016 20.00
2017 19.27
2018 18.60
2019 17.94
2020 17.27

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