Skip to content
Nations Inquiry — home

Data for 1962

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962

1962, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962 covers 222 countries. Bangladesh is highest, at 206.494; Japan is lowest, at 3.945. The middle country reads 95.069. Against 1961, 222 values changed (102 up, 120 down), the same countries are covered.

Download CSVCite this year
Share

Share this page

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1962

HighestBangladesh

206.494

LowestJapan

3.945

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), 1962, 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), 1962: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia206.494
2MaliMLIWestern Africa203.551
3NigerNERWestern Africa201.665
4SenegalSENWestern Africa201.466
5Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa199.752
6ChadTCDMiddle Africa195.953
7BahrainBHRWestern Asia194.818
8GambiaGMBWestern Africa194.657
9United States Virgin IslandsVIRCaribbean194.648
10UgandaUGAEastern Africa192.639
11Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa191.301
12LiberiaLBRWestern Africa189.848
13SudanSDNNorthern Africa187.623
14ZambiaZMBEastern Africa182.541
15QatarQATWestern Asia181.461
16Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesVCTCaribbean181.422
17MontserratMSRCaribbean178.030
18CameroonCMRMiddle Africa176.028
19KenyaKENEastern Africa175.455
20TanzaniaTZAEastern Africa175.240
21KuwaitKWTWestern Asia174.906
22Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa173.231
23MadagascarMDGEastern Africa172.522
24MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia170.448
25Saint Kitts and NevisKNACaribbean169.788

02In 1962

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Bangladesh206.494
  2. 2Mali203.551
  3. 3Niger201.665
  4. 4Senegal201.466
  5. 5Sierra Leone199.752

Lowest

  1. 222Japan3.945
  2. 221Ireland9.980
  3. 220Andorra10.371
  4. 219Spain11.211
  5. 218Macau11.799

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 95.069. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031961 → 1962

Since 1961

What changed between 1961 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 102 · 120rose · 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 1962.

  • 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 (1962). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962 [data set], describing 1962. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1962

0674 held

Other years

07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962?

Bangladesh, at 206.494, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962 describe?

1962.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1962?

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), 1962 the newest?

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

Feedback

Feedback

How are we doing?

Two answers are required — a rating and your email. The rest is up to you.