Costa Rica - 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 Costa Rica was 50.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 123.32 in 1960 and a minimum value of 50.64 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 123.32
1961 122.93
1962 122.55
1963 119.52
1964 116.49
1965 113.47
1966 110.44
1967 107.42
1968 105.26
1969 103.10
1970 100.94
1971 98.78
1972 96.62
1973 97.04
1974 97.46
1975 97.88
1976 98.31
1977 98.73
1978 98.41
1979 98.09
1980 97.77
1981 97.45
1982 97.13
1983 97.34
1984 97.54
1985 97.75
1986 97.96
1987 98.16
1988 97.25
1989 96.33
1990 95.42
1991 94.50
1992 93.59
1993 91.50
1994 89.42
1995 87.34
1996 85.26
1997 83.17
1998 80.43
1999 77.68
2000 74.93
2001 72.18
2002 69.44
2003 68.26
2004 67.09
2005 65.92
2006 64.74
2007 63.57
2008 62.81
2009 62.05
2010 61.29
2011 60.53
2012 59.77
2013 58.51
2014 57.24
2015 55.98
2016 54.72
2017 53.46
2018 52.52
2019 51.58
2020 50.64

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