World - 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 World was 41.04 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 86.02 in 1960 and a minimum value of 41.04 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 86.02
1961 85.84
1962 85.29
1963 84.03
1964 82.83
1965 81.80
1966 80.86
1967 80.03
1968 78.64
1969 77.30
1970 76.06
1971 74.84
1972 73.87
1973 73.52
1974 73.17
1975 72.70
1976 72.05
1977 71.26
1978 70.84
1979 70.35
1980 69.86
1981 69.27
1982 68.67
1983 68.29
1984 68.07
1985 67.99
1986 67.99
1987 68.11
1988 67.20
1989 66.41
1990 65.74
1991 65.14
1992 64.65
1993 64.06
1994 63.36
1995 62.48
1996 61.33
1997 60.07
1998 58.98
1999 57.73
2000 56.33
2001 54.77
2002 53.08
2003 51.70
2004 50.52
2005 49.65
2006 48.96
2007 48.56
2008 48.36
2009 48.15
2010 47.81
2011 47.32
2012 46.69
2013 45.89
2014 45.06
2015 44.22
2016 43.33
2017 42.42
2018 42.00
2019 41.55
2020 41.04

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