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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002

2002, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 203.061; North Korea is lowest, at 0.976. The middle country reads 43.882. Against 2001, 222 values changed (38 up, 184 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 2002

HighestNiger

203.061

LowestNorth Korea

0.976

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), 2002, 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), 2002: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa203.061
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa186.515
3Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa184.231
4MaliMLIWestern Africa170.206
5MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa165.639
6UgandaUGAEastern Africa159.574
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa157.141
8MalawiMWIEastern Africa152.725
9EthiopiaETHEastern Africa151.234
10AngolaAGOMiddle Africa150.196
11AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia150.161
12MadagascarMDGEastern Africa148.006
13ZambiaZMBEastern Africa147.335
14GuineaGINWestern Africa147.271
15South SudanSSDEastern Africa145.586
16BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia142.000
17Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa141.710
18LiberiaLBRWestern Africa140.238
19Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa139.304
20CameroonCMRMiddle Africa136.781
21São Tomé and PríncipeSTPMiddle Africa136.144
22NigeriaNGAWestern Africa133.608
23TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa132.824
24SomaliaSOMEastern Africa132.316
25GabonGABMiddle Africa125.344

02In 2002

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger203.061
  2. 2Chad186.515
  3. 3Equatorial Guinea184.231
  4. 4Mali170.206
  5. 5Mozambique165.639

Lowest

  1. 222North Korea0.976
  2. 221South Korea2.719
  3. 220Macau3.669
  4. 219San Marino4.038
  5. 218Hong Kong4.044

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 43.882. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

032001 → 2002

Since 2001

What changed between 2001 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 38 · 184rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

  • Albania8.811 → 13.511+4.700
  • Niue38.205 → 42.456+4.251
  • Angola147.253 → 150.196+2.943
  • Thailand40.092 → 42.769+2.677
  • Iraq58.997 → 60.846+1.849

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 2002.

  • 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 (2002). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002 [data set], describing 2002. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/2002

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002?

Niger, at 203.061, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002 describe?

2002.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 2002?

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), 2002 the newest?

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

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