Fertility rates by age of mother (5-year), 15-19, 2015-2020

Levels of adolescent childbearing, which can have adverse health and social consequences both for the young mothers and for the children they bear, have fallen in most countries. Among the eight SDG regions in 2015-2020, the adolescent birth rate, that is, the number of births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, was highest in sub-Saharan Africa, at 104 per 1,000 women, followed by Latin America and the Caribbean at 63 per 1,000. The ratio of adolescent to total fertility was highest in Latin America and the Caribbean, where the birth rate at ages 15 to 19 years contributed 15 per cent of total fertility.
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