Papua New Guinea - 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 Papua New Guinea was 50.64 as of 2020. As the graph below shows, over the past 60 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 97.59 in 1972 and a minimum value of 50.64 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 93.85
1961 93.85
1962 93.86
1963 93.84
1964 93.83
1965 93.81
1966 93.80
1967 93.78
1968 94.54
1969 95.31
1970 96.07
1971 96.83
1972 97.59
1973 96.68
1974 95.77
1975 94.87
1976 93.96
1977 93.06
1978 92.17
1979 91.29
1980 90.40
1981 89.52
1982 88.64
1983 87.63
1984 86.62
1985 85.61
1986 84.60
1987 83.59
1988 82.04
1989 80.49
1990 78.93
1991 77.38
1992 75.83
1993 74.99
1994 74.14
1995 73.30
1996 72.45
1997 71.61
1998 70.28
1999 68.96
2000 67.64
2001 66.32
2002 65.00
2003 64.22
2004 63.44
2005 62.66
2006 61.88
2007 61.10
2008 60.20
2009 59.29
2010 58.39
2011 57.48
2012 56.57
2013 55.79
2014 55.01
2015 54.22
2016 53.44
2017 52.66
2018 51.98
2019 51.31
2020 50.64

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