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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991

1991, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991 covers 222 countries. Niger is highest, at 208.108; North Korea is lowest, at 2.744. The middle country reads 63.552. Against 1990, 222 values changed (80 up, 142 down), the same countries are covered.

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Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19) · Data for 1991

HighestNiger

208.108

LowestNorth Korea

2.744

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), 1991, 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), 1991: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
derived
1NigerNERWestern Africa208.108
2ChadTCDMiddle Africa191.533
3Equatorial GuineaGNQMiddle Africa183.796
4UgandaUGAEastern Africa179.802
5EthiopiaETHEastern Africa172.315
6BangladeshBGDSouthern Asia170.848
7LiberiaLBRWestern Africa167.666
8MaliMLIWestern Africa167.077
9MozambiqueMOZEastern Africa164.134
10Sierra LeoneSLEWestern Africa161.382
11South SudanSSDEastern Africa159.392
12Central African RepublicCAFMiddle Africa158.515
13GambiaGMBWestern Africa158.289
14GuineaGINWestern Africa157.965
15YemenYEMWestern Asia157.618
16MalawiMWIEastern Africa156.428
17CameroonCMRMiddle Africa156.154
18Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa155.133
19GabonGABMiddle Africa152.680
20ZambiaZMBEastern Africa150.777
21AngolaAGOMiddle Africa148.019
22NicaraguaNICCentral America147.864
23AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia145.383
24Burkina FasoBFAWestern Africa144.556
25IndiaINDSouthern Asia141.481

02In 1991

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. 1Niger208.108
  2. 2Chad191.533
  3. 3Equatorial Guinea183.796
  4. 4Uganda179.802
  5. 5Ethiopia172.315

Lowest

  1. 222North Korea2.744
  2. 221Japan3.866
  3. 220South Korea4.293
  4. 219Hong Kong6.599
  5. 218San Marino6.635

A higher value is the worse result. The middle country reads 63.552. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031990 → 1991

Since 1990

What changed between 1990 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 222values changed, of 222 in both
  • 80 · 142rose · 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 1991.

  • 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 (1991). Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991 [data set], describing 1991. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/adolescent-birth-rate/1991

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07Questions

Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991: questions and answers

Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate in Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991?

Niger, at 208.108, of the 222 countries in the file.

What year does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991 describe?

1991.

How many countries does Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991 cover?

222.

Where can I download Adolescent Birth Rate (Ages 15–19), 1991?

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), 1991 the newest?

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

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