OECD members - 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 OECD members was 20.85 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 52.81 in 1960 and a minimum value of 20.85 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 52.81
1961 52.74
1962 52.45
1963 51.67
1964 51.00
1965 50.54
1966 50.27
1967 50.17
1968 50.10
1969 50.00
1970 49.76
1971 49.32
1972 48.80
1973 48.07
1974 47.29
1975 46.49
1976 45.62
1977 44.68
1978 43.85
1979 43.02
1980 42.21
1981 41.39
1982 40.61
1983 40.19
1984 39.76
1985 39.31
1986 38.84
1987 38.35
1988 38.42
1989 38.53
1990 38.71
1991 38.87
1992 39.14
1993 38.87
1994 38.59
1995 38.24
1996 37.79
1997 37.26
1998 36.60
1999 35.93
2000 35.28
2001 34.60
2002 33.93
2003 33.58
2004 33.22
2005 32.84
2006 32.39
2007 31.94
2008 30.99
2009 30.03
2010 29.06
2011 28.06
2012 27.00
2013 26.15
2014 25.30
2015 24.48
2016 23.66
2017 22.87
2018 22.23
2019 21.57
2020 20.85

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