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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956

1956, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956 covers 222 countries. Senegal is highest, at 210.161; Japan is lowest, at 4.900. The middle country reads 95.106. Against 1955, 222 values changed (150 up, 72 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1956

HighestSenegal

210.161

LowestJapan

4.900

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), 1956, 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), 1956: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1SenegalSENWestern Africa210.161
2MaliMLIWestern Africa204.992
3NigerNERWestern Africa204.218
4BahrainBHRWestern Asia201.976
5GambiaGMBWestern Africa200.845
6Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean199.013
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa195.476
8ChadTCDMiddle Africa195.271
9Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean193.395
10BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia193.188
11QatarQATWestern Asia188.584
12UgandaUGAEastern Africa184.560
13LiberiaLBRWestern Africa184.208
14GuatemalaGTMCentral America181.242
15EgyptEGYNorthern Africa180.726
16MontserratMSRCaribbean180.092
17KuwaitKWTWestern Asia178.061
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa177.446
19MadagascarMDGEastern Africa177.264
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa173.780
21SudanSDNNorthern Africa173.288
22PakistanPAKSouthern Asia170.154
23KenyaKENEastern Africa169.514
24GuineaGINWestern Africa168.869
25Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa168.657

02In 1956

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Senegal210.161
  2. 2Mali204.992
  3. 3Niger204.218
  4. 4Bahrain201.976
  5. 5Gambia200.845

Lowest

  1. 222Japan4.900
  2. 221Andorra8.586
  3. 220Spain10.421
  4. 219Ireland10.521
  5. 218Latvia12.662

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 95.106. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031955 → 1956

Since 1955

What changed between 1955 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 150 · 72rose · 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 1956.

  • 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 (1956). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956 [data set], describing 1956. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1956

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956?

Senegal, at 210.161, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956 describe?

1956.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1956?

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), 1956 the newest?

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

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