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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

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), 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.

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

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 119 · 103rose · 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 1959.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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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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