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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987

1987, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 213.629; Japan is lowest, at 3.614. The middle country reads 68.318. Against 1986, 222 values changed (65 up, 157 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1987

HighestNiger

213.629

LowestJapan

3.614

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), 1987, 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), 1987: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa213.629
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa202.824
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia192.732
4LiberiaLBRWestern Africa179.584
5UgandaUGAEastern Africa176.901
6Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa176.754
7Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa173.173
8EthiopiaETHEastern Africa172.288
9Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa171.826
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa169.942
11Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa169.674
12CameroonCMRMiddle Africa167.808
13MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa165.890
14MalawiMWIEastern Africa164.586
15YemenYEMWestern Asia164.084
16MaliMLIWestern Africa163.403
17GabonGABMiddle Africa160.682
18MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia160.282
19GuineaGINWestern Africa159.068
20South SudanSSDEastern Africa158.371
21ZambiaZMBEastern Africa156.116
22Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia155.557
23EswatiniSWZSouthern Africa152.518
24NicaraguaNICCentral America151.238
25Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa149.309

02In 1987

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger213.629
  2. 2Chad202.824
  3. 3Bangladesh192.732
  4. 4Liberia179.584
  5. 5Uganda176.901

Lowest

  1. 222Japan3.614
  2. 221North Korea3.812
  3. 220Hong Kong6.295
  4. 219Switzerland6.415
  5. 218Liechtenstein6.830

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 68.318. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031986 → 1987

Since 1986

What changed between 1986 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 65 · 157rose · 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 1987.

  • 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 (1987). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987 [data set], describing 1987. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1987

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987?

Niger, at 213.629, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987 describe?

1987.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1987?

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), 1987 the newest?

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

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