European Union - 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 European Union was 8.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 35.64 in 1969 and a minimum value of 8.57 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 31.33
1961 31.95
1962 32.52
1963 33.05
1964 33.59
1965 34.18
1966 34.84
1967 35.56
1968 35.62
1969 35.64
1970 35.58
1971 35.45
1972 35.28
1973 34.92
1974 34.51
1975 34.05
1976 33.54
1977 32.90
1978 31.42
1979 30.01
1980 28.70
1981 27.49
1982 26.40
1983 25.59
1984 24.79
1985 23.96
1986 23.14
1987 22.30
1988 21.76
1989 21.20
1990 20.65
1991 20.06
1992 19.50
1993 18.72
1994 17.89
1995 16.98
1996 15.99
1997 14.95
1998 14.65
1999 14.37
2000 14.12
2001 13.83
2002 13.58
2003 13.57
2004 13.54
2005 13.47
2006 13.31
2007 13.09
2008 12.51
2009 11.98
2010 11.49
2011 11.01
2012 10.54
2013 10.24
2014 9.96
2015 9.69
2016 9.41
2017 9.14
2018 8.93
2019 8.74
2020 8.57

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