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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989

1989, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 208.490; North Korea is lowest, at 3.222. The middle country reads 66.008. Against 1988, 222 values changed (84 up, 138 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1989

HighestNiger

208.490

LowestNorth Korea

3.222

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), 1989, 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), 1989: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa208.490
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa207.331
3BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia184.504
4Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa180.429
5UgandaUGAEastern Africa177.932
6LiberiaLBRWestern Africa172.019
7EthiopiaETHEastern Africa168.275
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa166.746
9MaliMLIWestern Africa166.056
10MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa162.687
11GambiaGMBWestern Africa162.315
12Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa160.595
13Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa160.063
14CameroonCMRMiddle Africa159.990
15South SudanSSDEastern Africa158.603
16MalawiMWIEastern Africa158.351
17GabonGABMiddle Africa156.082
18ZambiaZMBEastern Africa154.542
19YemenYEMWestern Asia154.397
20NicaraguaNICCentral America150.025
21GuineaGINWestern Africa149.636
22Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia147.056
23NigeriaNGAWestern Africa146.040
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa145.427
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia144.978

02In 1989

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger208.490
  2. 2Chad207.331
  3. 3Bangladesh184.504
  4. 4Equatorial Guinea180.429
  5. 5Uganda177.932

Lowest

  1. 222North Korea3.222
  2. 221Japan3.425
  3. 220South Korea4.625
  4. 219Hong Kong6.088
  5. 218Singapore6.534

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 66.008. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031988 → 1989

Since 1988

What changed between 1988 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 84 · 138rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Maldives150.685 → 140.698−9.987
  • Iran105.407 → 96.506−8.901
  • Romania63.954 → 55.751−8.203
  • Türkiye72.177 → 64.089−8.088
  • Benin133.585 → 125.906−7.679

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 1989.

  • 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 (1989). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989 [data set], describing 1989. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1989

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989?

Niger, at 208.490, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989 describe?

1989.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1989?

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), 1989 the newest?

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

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