North America - 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 North America was 15.21 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 79.29 in 1960 and a minimum value of 15.21 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 79.29
1961 76.90
1962 74.51
1963 72.57
1964 70.62
1965 68.68
1966 66.72
1967 64.76
1968 63.60
1969 62.44
1970 61.29
1971 60.10
1972 58.95
1973 57.25
1974 55.55
1975 53.84
1976 52.13
1977 50.41
1978 50.06
1979 49.72
1980 49.38
1981 49.05
1982 48.75
1983 49.08
1984 49.42
1985 49.75
1986 50.06
1987 50.34
1988 51.50
1989 52.64
1990 53.80
1991 54.97
1992 56.13
1993 54.58
1994 53.02
1995 51.47
1996 49.92
1997 48.36
1998 46.70
1999 45.04
2000 43.39
2001 41.72
2002 40.05
2003 39.49
2004 38.93
2005 38.37
2006 37.78
2007 37.19
2008 35.04
2009 32.89
2010 30.75
2011 28.59
2012 26.44
2013 24.91
2014 23.40
2015 21.89
2016 20.37
2017 18.86
2018 17.64
2019 16.42
2020 15.21

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