Botswana - 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 Botswana was 43.95 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 161.91 in 1967 and a minimum value of 43.95 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 161.15
1961 161.36
1962 161.57
1963 161.64
1964 161.71
1965 161.78
1966 161.84
1967 161.91
1968 160.77
1969 159.64
1970 158.50
1971 157.36
1972 156.22
1973 155.18
1974 154.14
1975 153.10
1976 152.07
1977 151.03
1978 149.57
1979 148.11
1980 146.65
1981 145.19
1982 143.73
1983 139.41
1984 135.09
1985 130.77
1986 126.46
1987 122.14
1988 116.74
1989 111.34
1990 105.94
1991 100.55
1992 95.15
1993 90.19
1994 85.22
1995 80.26
1996 75.29
1997 70.33
1998 66.61
1999 62.89
2000 59.18
2001 55.46
2002 51.74
2003 51.12
2004 50.51
2005 49.89
2006 49.28
2007 48.66
2008 48.56
2009 48.46
2010 48.35
2011 48.25
2012 48.15
2013 47.73
2014 47.31
2015 46.90
2016 46.48
2017 46.06
2018 45.36
2019 44.66
2020 43.95

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