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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959

1959, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959 covers 222 countries. Senegal is highest, at 204.551; Japan is lowest, at 4.093. The middle country reads 95.295. Against 1958, 222 values changed (119 up, 103 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1959

HighestSenegal

204.551

LowestJapan

4.093

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the lowest end. A higher value is the worse result.

01Position · derived

The table

Every country and every column of Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959, 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), 1959: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1SenegalSENWestern Africa204.551
2MaliMLIWestern Africa202.711
3BahrainBHRWestern Asia202.264
4NigerNERWestern Africa202.144
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia200.308
6Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean197.867
7GambiaGMBWestern Africa196.343
8Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa196.175
9ChadTCDMiddle Africa195.371
10LiberiaLBRWestern Africa190.955
11UgandaUGAEastern Africa188.184
12Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean185.143
13QatarQATWestern Asia183.633
14Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa180.775
15ZambiaZMBEastern Africa177.533
16MontserratMSRCaribbean177.257
17MadagascarMDGEastern Africa175.996
18SudanSDNNorthern Africa175.466
19KuwaitKWTWestern Asia175.397
20KenyaKENEastern Africa174.881
21TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa171.721
22GuatemalaGTMCentral America170.524
23GrenadaGRDCaribbean169.430
24Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa168.525
25ZimbabweZWEEastern Africa166.890

02In 1959

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Senegal204.551
  2. 2Mali202.711
  3. 3Bahrain202.264
  4. 4Niger202.144
  5. 5Bangladesh200.308

Lowest

  1. 222Japan4.093
  2. 221Ireland8.418
  3. 220Andorra9.048
  4. 219Spain9.226
  5. 218Switzerland14.339

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 95.295. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031958 → 1959

Since 1958

What changed between 1958 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 119 · 103rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

The site’s method

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1959.

  • The position is ours

    UN DESA Population Division publishes values only. The order here sorts the published values, and the page says so wherever it prints one.

  • Which end is better

    A higher value is the worse result.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

Download and cite

The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO. The version of CC BY written for intergovernmental organisations. Credit the publisher and say what you changed.

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1959). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959 [data set], describing 1959. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1959

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959?

Senegal, at 204.551, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959 describe?

1959.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959?

On this page, as a CSV file holding every value exactly as published, or from the publisher’s own site, linked below.

Is Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1959 the newest?

No. The newest held here is Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2023.

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