The Gambia - 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 The Gambia was 70.75 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 220.50 in 1960 and a minimum value of 70.75 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 220.50
1961 219.79
1962 219.09
1963 219.09
1964 219.09
1965 219.09
1966 219.09
1967 219.09
1968 218.37
1969 217.66
1970 216.95
1971 216.24
1972 215.52
1973 215.36
1974 215.19
1975 215.02
1976 214.85
1977 214.68
1978 212.06
1979 209.43
1980 206.81
1981 204.19
1982 201.56
1983 197.13
1984 192.69
1985 188.26
1986 183.83
1987 179.39
1988 174.00
1989 168.61
1990 163.21
1991 157.82
1992 152.42
1993 148.53
1994 144.64
1995 140.74
1996 136.85
1997 132.96
1998 129.90
1999 126.85
2000 123.80
2001 120.75
2002 117.69
2003 114.85
2004 112.00
2005 109.15
2006 106.30
2007 103.45
2008 100.94
2009 98.43
2010 95.92
2011 93.40
2012 90.89
2013 88.35
2014 85.81
2015 83.27
2016 80.73
2017 78.19
2018 75.71
2019 73.23
2020 70.75

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