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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990

1990, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 212.251; North Korea is lowest, at 2.992. The middle country reads 64.899. Against 1989, 222 values changed (89 up, 133 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1990

HighestNiger

212.251

LowestNorth Korea

2.992

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), 1990, 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), 1990: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa212.251
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa199.275
3Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa182.168
4UgandaUGAEastern Africa180.382
5BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia178.305
6EthiopiaETHEastern Africa177.316
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa168.522
8Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa165.112
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa164.915
10GambiaGMBWestern Africa160.640
11Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa160.229
12Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa159.914
13CameroonCMRMiddle Africa159.392
14South SudanSSDEastern Africa159.077
15MaliMLIWestern Africa157.279
16GabonGABMiddle Africa156.633
17YemenYEMWestern Asia155.769
18MalawiMWIEastern Africa155.057
19ZambiaZMBEastern Africa149.169
20NicaraguaNICCentral America148.921
21GuineaGINWestern Africa148.187
22Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa145.726
23AngolaAGOMiddle Africa145.432
24Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia143.388
25NigeriaNGAWestern Africa142.988

02In 1990

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger212.251
  2. 2Chad199.275
  3. 3Equatorial Guinea182.168
  4. 4Uganda180.382
  5. 5Bangladesh178.305

Lowest

  1. 222North Korea2.992
  2. 221Japan3.556
  3. 220South Korea4.274
  4. 219Hong Kong6.061
  5. 218Malta6.460

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 64.899. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031989 → 1990

Since 1989

What changed between 1989 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 89 · 133rose · fell
  • 0unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

  • Maldives140.698 → 130.449−10.249
  • Anguilla78.727 → 68.946−9.781
  • Iran96.506 → 87.712−8.794
  • Mali166.056 → 157.279−8.777
  • Chad207.331 → 199.275−8.056

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 1990.

  • 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 (1990). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990 [data set], describing 1990. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1990

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990?

Niger, at 212.251, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990 describe?

1990.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1990?

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), 1990 the newest?

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

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