Belgium - 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 Belgium was 4.41 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 31.34 in 1972 and a minimum value of 4.41 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 27.11
1961 28.30
1962 29.48
1963 29.72
1964 29.96
1965 30.19
1966 30.43
1967 30.66
1968 30.80
1969 30.94
1970 31.07
1971 31.21
1972 31.34
1973 29.93
1974 28.51
1975 27.09
1976 25.68
1977 24.26
1978 22.64
1979 21.02
1980 19.40
1981 17.78
1982 16.16
1983 15.20
1984 14.25
1985 13.29
1986 12.34
1987 11.39
1988 11.27
1989 11.16
1990 11.05
1991 10.93
1992 10.82
1993 10.69
1994 10.56
1995 10.43
1996 10.31
1997 10.18
1998 10.33
1999 10.49
2000 10.64
2001 10.80
2002 10.95
2003 10.77
2004 10.58
2005 10.40
2006 10.21
2007 10.03
2008 9.23
2009 8.43
2010 7.63
2011 6.83
2012 6.03
2013 5.75
2014 5.48
2015 5.20
2016 4.93
2017 4.65
2018 4.57
2019 4.49
2020 4.41

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