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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985

1985, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985 covers 222 countries. Chad is highest, at 200.108; Japan is lowest, at 3.792. The middle country reads 68.735. Against 1984, 222 values changed (61 up, 161 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1985

HighestChad

200.108

LowestJapan

3.792

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), 1985, 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), 1985: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1ChadTCDMiddle Africa200.108
2NigerNERWestern Africa198.848
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia197.142
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa191.069
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa182.055
6Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa179.913
7YemenYEMWestern Asia179.623
8MalawiMWIEastern Africa177.787
9UgandaUGAEastern Africa174.942
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa174.739
11CameroonCMRMiddle Africa173.314
12MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia173.247
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa172.243
14Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa171.790
15Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa168.615
16EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa166.892
17MaliMLIWestern Africa165.351
18MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa164.165
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa161.604
20GabonGABMiddle Africa161.473
21GuineaGINWestern Africa161.264
22IndiaINDSouthern Asia158.419
23South SudanSSDEastern Africa158.192
24Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia157.632
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa155.818

02In 1985

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Chad200.108
  2. 2Niger198.848
  3. 3Bangladesh197.142
  4. 4Liberia191.069
  5. 5Ethiopia182.055

Lowest

  1. 222Japan3.792
  2. 221North Korea4.524
  3. 220Liechtenstein6.672
  4. 219Netherlands6.899
  5. 218Switzerland6.954

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 68.735. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031984 → 1985

Since 1984

What changed between 1984 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 61 · 161rose · 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 1985.

  • 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 (1985). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985 [data set], describing 1985. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1985

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985?

Chad, at 200.108, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985 describe?

1985.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1985?

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), 1985 the newest?

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

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