Countries by adolescent birth rate

The Central African Republic had the highest adolescent birth rate of 215 countries in 2018, at 165.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. North Korea had the lowest, at 0.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. The median was 32.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 and the figure for the World was 42 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. Source: the World Bank.

Highest165.5Central African Republic

Lowest0.6North Korea

Median32.6215 countries

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Map of countries, 2018

Under 8
8 to 18
18 to 35
35 to 58
58 to 84
84 and over
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births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, 2018. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: World Bank, Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) (SP.ADO.TFRT). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2018

births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. Source: World Bank, Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) (SP.ADO.TFRT). Retrieved 2026-10-18.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19	Change on 2017
1	Central African Republic	165.5	+0.3%
2	Niger	163.8	-4%
3	Mozambique	163.4	-1.3%
4	Equatorial Guinea	161.6	-1.7%
5	Mali	150.8	-2.6%
6	Angola	146.3	-0.7%
7	Chad	145.2	-2.9%
8	Madagascar	136.3	+0.3%
9	Liberia	133.4	-1.4%
10	Somalia	126.6	-1.5%
11	Guinea	126.1	-0.2%
12	Zambia	124.4	-1.3%
13	Malawi	122.4	-0.9%
14	Tanzania	120.6	-1.1%
15	Uganda	117.3	-1.1%
16	Cameroon	117.1	-1.5%
17	Republic of the Congo	115.7	-1.3%
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	111.8	-0.6%
19	Burkina Faso	104.2	-4.6%
20	Sierra Leone	104.1	-2.7%
21	Côte d’Ivoire	102.1	-4.4%
22	South Sudan	101.2	-1.5%
23	Nicaragua	98.7	-1.2%
24	Zimbabwe	98.6	-0.4%
25	Gabon	98.1	-0.8%
26	Nigeria	96.6	-4.2%
27	Mauritania	95.6	-1.3%
28	São Tomé and Príncipe	91.1	-2.7%
29	Guinea-Bissau	88.4	-1.9%
30	Benin	87.9	-4.2%
31	Honduras	85.8	-0.2%
32	Nauru	85.1	-6.9%
33	Laos	84.2	+0.1%
34	Togo	82.4	-1%
35	Guatemala	81.7	-2.6%
36	Bangladesh	80.4	-2.2%
37	Lesotho	80	-5.1%
38	Guyana	76.1	-1.8%
39	Venezuela	75.5	-5.5%
40	Paraguay	75.2	-0.9%
41	Panama	75.1	-5.1%
42	Ethiopia	74.7	-0.6%
43	Marshall Islands	74.3	-0.2%
44	Eswatini	74.1	-0.6%
45	Sudan	74	-2.6%
46	Yemen	73.7	+0.6%
47	Namibia	73.2	-0.6%
48	Afghanistan	73	-3%
49	Nepal	72.8	-4.2%
50	Dominican Republic	72.6	-4.3%
51	Ecuador	72.5	-1.9%
52	Belize	72.2	+2.5%
53	Vanuatu	71.4	-1.4%
54	Eritrea	69.6	-1.9%
55	Bolivia	69.5	-1.4%
56	Senegal	67	-3.1%
57	Kenya	66.7	-2.2%
58	Ghana	66.5	-2%
59	Colombia	65.2	-1.2%
60	Gambia	64.9	-4.5%
61	Iraq	64.6	-2.9%
62	Mexico	63.4	-1.6%
63	Comoros	60	-0.8%
64	Seychelles	59.3	-0.8%
65	El Salvador	57.9	-5.3%
66	Papua New Guinea	57.8	-1.1%
67	Burundi	57.4	-1.9%
68	Solomon Islands	54.8	-3.4%
69	Haiti	54.6	-1.6%
70	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	54.5	-3.2%
71	Botswana	54.3	+8.8%
72	Brazil	54.3	-4%
73	Suriname	53.6	-4.4%
74	Cuba	52.4	+5.4%
75	South Africa	51.4	-8.2%
76	Cambodia	51	-1.4%
77	Cape Verde	51	-9.7%
78	Argentina	49.9	-9.3%
79	Azerbaijan	49.9	-5.9%
80	Kiribati	49.7	-0%
81	Peru	49.1	-3.1%
82	Costa Rica	49	-4.1%
83	Samoa	47.9	+0.1%
84	Egypt	47.2	-11.3%
85	Micronesia	46.9	-1.8%
86	Pakistan	46.5	-1.4%
87	Barbados	45.9	+0.5%
88	Philippines	42.9	-8.4%
88	Tajikistan	42.9	+9.9%
90	Palestine	41.7	-4.1%
91	Syria	41.2	-0.5%
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	40.4	-0.2%
93	Bulgaria	38.9	+1.7%
94	Trinidad and Tobago	38.4	-0.4%
95	Greenland	38.4	-2.9%
96	Jamaica	38.2	-5.4%
97	Uruguay	37.8	-14.7%
98	Kyrgyzstan	37.5	+4%
99	Romania	36.9	-3.3%
100	Guam	36.1	-7.2%
101	Dominica	36.1	-1.1%
102	American Samoa	35.4	-5%
103	Vietnam	35.4	-6.1%
104	Thailand	34.7	-11.4%
105	Myanmar	34.5	-1%
106	Georgia	33	-11.4%
107	Iran	33	-6.2%
108	U.S. Virgin Islands	32.6	-1.7%
109	Rwanda	32.5	-5.1%
110	Saint Lucia	32.1	-5%
111	Tuvalu	32.1	-1.1%
112	Timor-Leste	31.7	-4.4%
113	Grenada	31.1	+7.5%
114	Mongolia	31	-3.1%
115	Moldova	31	-4.3%
116	Indonesia	30.6	-6.5%
117	French Polynesia	30	-5.5%
118	Palau	30	-0.3%
119	Northern Mariana Islands	28.4	-5.4%
120	Antigua and Barbuda	28.2	-9.3%
121	Morocco	27.7	-1.5%
122	Slovakia	27	-0%
123	Bahamas	26.3	-1.8%
124	Turkmenistan	25.8	-4%
125	Tonga	25.4	-0.1%
126	Jordan	24.3	-8.1%
127	Aruba	24	-11.9%
128	Chile	23.7	-13%
129	Kazakhstan	23.5	-6.4%
130	Mauritius	23.3	-2.9%
131	Lebanon	22.3	-1%
132	Hungary	22.2	-4.6%
133	Uzbekistan	22	+4.4%
134	Fiji	21.8	+2.9%
135	Curaçao	21.7	+5.2%
136	Sint Maarten	20.9	-10%
137	Turks and Caicos Islands	20.3	-5.1%
138	Djibouti	20.3	-1.5%
139	Puerto Rico	20.1	-19.5%
140	Türkiye	19.8	-11.2%
141	Armenia	18.7	-11.8%
142	Ukraine	18.6	-14.4%
143	North Macedonia	17.6	-0.7%
144	United States	17.2	-7.2%
145	Russia	16	-12.1%
146	Sri Lanka	15.8	-2.7%
147	Albania	15.5	-7.9%
148	India	15.1	-0.2%
149	New Caledonia	14.9	-5.1%
150	Saint Martin	14.5	-10.7%
151	Saudi Arabia	14.2	-2.8%
152	Serbia	14.1	-5.7%
153	New Zealand	13.5	-10.1%
154	Malta	12.3	-1.8%
155	Latvia	12.2	-13.6%
156	British Virgin Islands	12.1	+10.9%
157	United Kingdom	12.1	-7%
158	Belarus	11.9	-10.9%
159	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.8	+1.7%
160	Lithuania	11.7	-7.2%
161	Bahrain	11.7	-10%
162	Oman	11	-13.9%
163	Czechia	10.7	-7.9%
164	Monaco	10.7	+1.6%
165	Poland	10.6	-8.2%
166	Cayman Islands	10.6	-4.5%
167	Brunei	10.3	-1.9%
168	Montenegro	10.1	-2.2%
169	Australia	9.7	-4.8%
170	Isle of Man	9.6	-5%
171	Algeria	9.5	-4.8%
172	Bhutan	9.4	-17.3%
173	Estonia	9.3	-5.5%
174	Croatia	9	-5%
175	Malaysia	8.9	-6.6%
176	Gibraltar	8.8	-0.4%
177	China	8.7	-15.1%
178	Greece	8.6	-1.7%
179	Israel	8.2	-7.6%
180	Maldives	7.8	-14%
181	Qatar	7.8	-10.1%
182	Germany	7.7	-7.8%
183	Portugal	7.6	-2.7%
184	Cyprus	7.1	+7.8%
185	Faroe Islands	7	-10.8%
186	Canada	7	-11.7%
187	Libya	6.8	-3.1%
188	Tunisia	6.6	-10.5%
189	France	6.4	-10.2%
190	Spain	6.2	-9.9%
191	Ireland	6.1	-8.8%
192	Austria	5.7	-17.1%
193	Belgium	5.5	-6.4%
194	Iceland	5.4	-9.3%
195	Kuwait	5.2	-14.5%
196	Finland	4.4	-11.8%
197	Luxembourg	4.3	-4.6%
198	Italy	4.1	-7.1%
199	Slovenia	4	-2.1%
200	Sweden	4	-6.1%
201	Andorra	3.8	-11.4%
202	United Arab Emirates	3.7	-17.7%
203	Bermuda	3.6	-12.6%
204	Japan	3.1	-9.6%
205	Netherlands	2.6	-6.1%
206	Norway	2.6	-15.5%
207	Denmark	2.4	-14.9%
207	Hong Kong	2.4	-12.4%
209	Singapore	2.4	+1.3%
210	Switzerland	2.3	-6.4%
211	Liechtenstein	2.2	+6.9%
212	Macao	1.3	-16.5%
213	South Korea	1.2	+4.7%
214	San Marino	1.1	+2.4%
215	North Korea	0.6	-1.9%

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Births to women aged 15 to 19 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 in the year. World Bank series from the UN World Population Prospects.

UN estimates fitted to registration, census and survey data, so they can differ from national birth counts. Years after the last WPP estimate year are projections and are not stored.

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World Bank, World Development Indicators. Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) (SP.ADO.TFRT). https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT. Retrieved 2026-10-18. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) (SP.ADO.TFRT), Countries by adolescent birth rate, 2018. World Bank, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adolescent-birth-rate/countries?period=2018. Accessed 18 Oct. 2026.

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World Bank (2026) Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19) (SP.ADO.TFRT), Countries by adolescent birth rate, 2018 [Dataset]. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/adolescent-birth-rate/countries?period=2018 (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

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Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate?

The Central African Republic, with 165.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 in 2018, according to the World Bank.

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North Korea, with 0.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 in 2018.

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