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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1957

1957, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The adolescent birth rate is the number of babies born to girls and young women aged 15 to 19 for every 1,000 women of that age. Early childbearing carries higher risks for mother and child and often ends a girl's schooling, which is why reducing it is one of the Sustainable Development Goals.

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1957 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 203.586; Japan is lowest, at 3.984. The middle country reads 95.249. Against 1956, 222 values changed (151 up, 71 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1957

HighestNiger

203.586

LowestJapan

3.984

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1957, as published. UN DESA Population Division ranks nobody on this measure; the position is derived here by ordering the published values. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1957: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa203.586
2MaliMLIWestern Africa202.712
3BahrainBHRWestern Asia201.771
4SenegalSENWestern Africa200.525
5GambiaGMBWestern Africa199.286
6Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean199.165
7Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean196.784
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa195.754
9BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia195.387
10ChadTCDMiddle Africa195.367
11QatarQATWestern Asia186.905
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa186.137
13UgandaUGAEastern Africa185.686
14MontserratMSRCaribbean178.879
15GuatemalaGTMCentral America178.737
16EgyptEGYNorthern Africa178.348
17Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa177.994
18MadagascarMDGEastern Africa177.406
19KuwaitKWTWestern Asia176.256
20GrenadaGRDCaribbean176.177
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa174.837
22SudanSDNNorthern Africa174.024
23KenyaKENEastern Africa172.192
24TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa170.010
25MoroccoMARNorthern Africa169.313

02In 1957

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger203.586
  2. 2Mali202.712
  3. 3Bahrain201.771
  4. 4Senegal200.525
  5. 5Gambia199.286

Lowest

  1. 222Japan3.984
  2. 221Andorra8.628
  3. 220Spain9.241
  4. 219Ireland10.168
  5. 218Netherlands14.180

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 95.249. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031956 → 1957

Since 1956

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 151 · 71rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

04Caveats

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How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method, so a change from one year to the next is not a revision. It can differ from what was first published for 1957.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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UN DESA Population Division (1957). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1957 [data set], describing 1957. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1957

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