Barbados - 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 Barbados was 26.29 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 124.93 in 1960 and a minimum value of 26.29 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 124.93
1961 121.55
1962 118.18
1963 114.56
1964 110.93
1965 107.31
1966 103.69
1967 100.07
1968 98.55
1969 97.04
1970 95.52
1971 94.01
1972 92.49
1973 87.93
1974 83.38
1975 78.82
1976 74.27
1977 69.71
1978 69.92
1979 70.13
1980 70.35
1981 70.56
1982 70.77
1983 66.60
1984 62.44
1985 58.27
1986 54.11
1987 49.94
1988 51.53
1989 53.13
1990 54.72
1991 56.31
1992 57.91
1993 56.73
1994 55.56
1995 54.38
1996 53.20
1997 52.03
1998 51.73
1999 51.42
2000 51.12
2001 50.82
2002 50.52
2003 49.88
2004 49.24
2005 48.60
2006 47.97
2007 47.33
2008 46.41
2009 45.48
2010 44.56
2011 43.63
2012 42.71
2013 40.88
2014 39.05
2015 37.21
2016 35.38
2017 33.55
2018 31.13
2019 28.71
2020 26.29

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