South Asia - 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 Asia was 22.36 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 116.74 in 1972 and a minimum value of 22.36 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 114.49
1961 114.75
1962 115.01
1963 115.43
1964 115.78
1965 116.06
1966 116.30
1967 116.48
1968 116.48
1969 116.54
1970 116.68
1971 116.68
1972 116.74
1973 116.39
1974 116.11
1975 115.89
1976 115.84
1977 115.82
1978 116.05
1979 116.24
1980 116.37
1981 116.41
1982 116.40
1983 115.39
1984 114.36
1985 113.33
1986 112.28
1987 111.23
1988 108.59
1989 105.96
1990 103.36
1991 100.76
1992 98.19
1993 94.91
1994 91.63
1995 88.32
1996 84.98
1997 81.62
1998 78.37
1999 75.13
2000 71.90
2001 68.70
2002 65.51
2003 62.71
2004 59.92
2005 57.12
2006 54.28
2007 51.46
2008 48.72
2009 46.00
2010 43.31
2011 40.66
2012 38.01
2013 35.57
2014 33.11
2015 30.63
2016 28.12
2017 25.59
2018 24.52
2019 23.45
2020 22.36

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