Sri Lanka - 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 Sri Lanka was 20.22 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 98.64 in 1960 and a minimum value of 20.22 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 98.64
1961 96.39
1962 94.13
1963 89.72
1964 85.32
1965 80.91
1966 76.50
1967 72.10
1968 67.40
1969 62.70
1970 58.01
1971 53.31
1972 48.62
1973 47.05
1974 45.49
1975 43.93
1976 42.37
1977 40.81
1978 40.40
1979 39.98
1980 39.57
1981 39.15
1982 38.74
1983 37.69
1984 36.65
1985 35.61
1986 34.56
1987 33.52
1988 32.68
1989 31.83
1990 30.98
1991 30.14
1992 29.29
1993 29.27
1994 29.24
1995 29.21
1996 29.19
1997 29.16
1998 28.91
1999 28.66
2000 28.41
2001 28.16
2002 27.90
2003 26.78
2004 25.66
2005 24.54
2006 23.41
2007 22.29
2008 22.20
2009 22.11
2010 22.02
2011 21.94
2012 21.85
2013 21.66
2014 21.48
2015 21.29
2016 21.11
2017 20.93
2018 20.69
2019 20.45
2020 20.22

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