Malaysia - 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 Malaysia was 13.57 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 78.64 in 1960 and a minimum value of 12.75 in 2007.

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 78.64
1961 78.60
1962 78.57
1963 76.14
1964 73.71
1965 71.29
1966 68.86
1967 66.43
1968 63.15
1969 59.88
1970 56.60
1971 53.32
1972 50.05
1973 48.30
1974 46.55
1975 44.80
1976 43.05
1977 41.30
1978 39.04
1979 36.77
1980 34.51
1981 32.24
1982 29.98
1983 27.95
1984 25.92
1985 23.89
1986 21.86
1987 19.83
1988 19.68
1989 19.53
1990 19.39
1991 19.24
1992 19.09
1993 18.23
1994 17.36
1995 16.49
1996 15.63
1997 14.76
1998 14.41
1999 14.06
2000 13.71
2001 13.36
2002 13.01
2003 12.96
2004 12.90
2005 12.85
2006 12.80
2007 12.75
2008 12.83
2009 12.91
2010 12.99
2011 13.07
2012 13.15
2013 13.20
2014 13.26
2015 13.31
2016 13.36
2017 13.41
2018 13.47
2019 13.52
2020 13.57

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