Portugal - 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 Portugal was 7.24 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 38.40 in 1977 and a minimum value of 7.24 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 26.90
1961 26.95
1962 27.00
1963 27.57
1964 28.13
1965 28.70
1966 29.26
1967 29.83
1968 30.25
1969 30.67
1970 31.09
1971 31.51
1972 31.93
1973 33.22
1974 34.52
1975 35.81
1976 37.11
1977 38.40
1978 38.30
1979 38.20
1980 38.09
1981 37.99
1982 37.89
1983 35.91
1984 33.92
1985 31.94
1986 29.96
1987 27.98
1988 26.75
1989 25.52
1990 24.30
1991 23.07
1992 21.85
1993 21.56
1994 21.27
1995 20.99
1996 20.70
1997 20.42
1998 20.37
1999 20.33
2000 20.29
2001 20.24
2002 20.20
2003 19.41
2004 18.61
2005 17.82
2006 17.03
2007 16.24
2008 15.27
2009 14.31
2010 13.34
2011 12.38
2012 11.41
2013 10.81
2014 10.20
2015 9.59
2016 8.99
2017 8.38
2018 8.00
2019 7.62
2020 7.24

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