Countries by adolescent birth rate

The Central African Republic had the highest adolescent birth rate of 215 countries in 2022, at 163 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. Macao had the lowest, at 0.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. The median was 28.6 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 and the figure for the World was 39.3 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19. Source: the World Bank.

Highest163Central African Republic

Lowest0.5Macao

Median28.6215 countries

World39.3History

Map of countries, 2022

Under 6
6 to 14
14 to 31
31 to 54
54 to 79
79 and over
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births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19	Change on 2021
1	Central African Republic	163	-0.3%
2	Mozambique	155.3	-1%
3	Equatorial Guinea	152.1	-1.3%
4	Niger	146.9	-0.9%
5	Angola	142	-1%
6	Mali	140	-1.3%
7	Chad	136.7	-0.9%
8	Madagascar	131.6	-1.2%
9	Liberia	127.3	-1.3%
10	Guinea	120.4	-1.9%
11	Somalia	119.3	-1.4%
12	Zambia	117.4	-1.1%
13	Malawi	115	-1.3%
14	Tanzania	114.3	-1%
15	Republic of the Congo	111.2	-1.3%
16	Uganda	108.7	-2%
17	Cameroon	108.3	-1.4%
18	Democratic Republic of the Congo	108.1	-1.1%
19	Zimbabwe	99.5	+0.3%
20	South Sudan	98.6	-0.9%
21	Sierra Leone	95.7	-2.4%
22	Nicaragua	94.1	-1.1%
23	Gabon	93.3	-1.7%
24	Côte d’Ivoire	93.2	-1.5%
25	Mauritania	90.2	-1.6%
26	Burkina Faso	88.6	-1.7%
27	Nigeria	87.3	-1.4%
28	São Tomé and Príncipe	86.8	-1.3%
29	Guinea-Bissau	83.2	-1.7%
30	Honduras	82.8	-0.9%
31	Laos	82.4	-0.5%
32	Benin	78.9	-1.2%
33	Nauru	78.4	-2.7%
34	Togo	78.3	-1.8%
35	Yemen	74.9	+0.5%
36	Bangladesh	73.1	-3.7%
37	Venezuela	73	-0.5%
38	Lesotho	71.8	-1.7%
39	Guyana	71.3	-2%
40	Ethiopia	71.1	-1.7%
41	Marshall Islands	71.1	-0%
42	Paraguay	71	-1.2%
43	Eswatini	69.8	-1.4%
44	Guatemala	69.1	-1.7%
45	Nepal	68.3	-0.6%
46	Sudan	67.3	-2.6%
47	Vanuatu	67.2	-1.4%
48	Namibia	66.9	-2.2%
49	Bolivia	65.8	-1.3%
50	Eritrea	65.7	-1.1%
51	Afghanistan	65.3	-1.9%
52	Mexico	61.1	-1.5%
53	Senegal	61	-1.8%
54	Colombia	60.2	-3%
55	Gambia	59.2	-2.2%
56	Iraq	59	-2.3%
57	Ghana	58.8	-1.6%
58	Panama	57.8	-0.5%
59	Kenya	57.3	-3.8%
60	Ecuador	57	-2.8%
61	Comoros	56.3	-1.9%
62	Seychelles	55.4	-1.8%
63	Papua New Guinea	55	-1.1%
64	El Salvador	54.9	-2.2%
65	Botswana	54.6	-0.9%
66	Burundi	54.1	-1.4%
67	Dominican Republic	53.6	-4.4%
68	Belize	53.4	+4.1%
69	South Africa	51.7	-1.6%
70	Solomon Islands	51.2	-1.3%
71	Haiti	50.6	-1.8%
72	Suriname	48.8	-1.5%
73	Cuba	47.8	-1.2%
74	Cambodia	47.1	-1.6%
75	Barbados	45.8	-0.2%
76	Kiribati	45	-3%
77	Micronesia	44	-0.1%
78	Peru	43.9	-1.1%
79	Samoa	43.9	-0.3%
80	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	43.6	-2.2%
81	Brazil	42.9	-6.1%
82	Pakistan	42.3	-2.5%
83	Tajikistan	42.2	-4%
84	Egypt	41.9	-0.1%
85	Syria	39.7	-2.5%
86	Bulgaria	39.4	+8.2%
87	Cape Verde	38.7	-0.6%
88	Palestine	36.8	-2.9%
89	Jamaica	36.8	0%
90	Trinidad and Tobago	36.8	-1.2%
91	Greenland	36.4	-1.2%
92	Saint Kitts and Nevis	35.7	-3.6%
93	Azerbaijan	35.3	+1.3%
94	Vietnam	34.6	-0.1%
95	Uzbekistan	34.4	+10.6%
96	Dominica	34.3	-1.3%
97	American Samoa	34.1	-0.3%
98	Guam	33.9	-1.1%
99	Myanmar	33.8	-0.9%
100	Romania	33.5	+0.8%
101	Antigua and Barbuda	33.5	-0.8%
102	Philippines	32.2	-0.9%
103	U.S. Virgin Islands	31.7	-0.3%
104	Rwanda	31.1	-0.3%
105	Palau	30	0%
106	Grenada	29.4	-1%
107	Kyrgyzstan	28.9	-2.6%
108	Saint Lucia	28.6	-1%
109	Tuvalu	28.1	-1.3%
110	Timor-Leste	27.9	-1.5%
111	Indonesia	26.6	-0.9%
112	Uruguay	26.5	-3.2%
113	Costa Rica	26.5	-5.1%
114	Northern Mariana Islands	26.3	-1.5%
115	Iran	26.3	-0.6%
116	Thailand	26.3	-4.4%
117	Argentina	25.8	-9.7%
118	Morocco	25.6	-2.4%
119	Tonga	25	+0.9%
120	French Polynesia	24.7	-1.8%
121	Bahamas	24.7	-0.8%
122	Slovakia	24.5	-5.1%
123	Moldova	22.4	-10.4%
124	Turkmenistan	22.3	-7.2%
125	Georgia	21.5	-14.5%
126	Fiji	21.3	-1.3%
127	Lebanon	21.1	-1.2%
128	Mongolia	20.5	-8.4%
129	Mauritius	20.1	-6%
130	Djibouti	19.3	-1.4%
131	Jordan	18.9	-2.8%
132	Aruba	18.8	+0.8%
133	Hungary	18.8	-5.2%
134	Kazakhstan	18.4	-16.1%
135	Sint Maarten	17.1	-0.7%
136	Turks and Caicos Islands	16.6	-3.9%
137	Sri Lanka	15.1	-1.8%
138	North Macedonia	14.7	-7.7%
139	Saint Martin	14.7	-2.7%
140	British Virgin Islands	14.5	+1.1%
141	India	14.2	-0.7%
142	Puerto Rico	14	-6.3%
143	Serbia	13.8	+0.7%
144	United States	13.6	-0.7%
145	Armenia	13.5	-1.3%
146	Russia	13.2	-3%
147	Curaçao	13	-0.8%
148	Albania	12.8	-1.3%
149	Türkiye	12.2	-10.5%
150	New Caledonia	12.1	-1.8%
151	Cayman Islands	11.5	-0.8%
152	Bosnia and Herzegovina	11.1	-0.9%
153	New Zealand	10.9	+0.2%
154	Malta	10.5	-0.5%
155	Saudi Arabia	10.3	-1.7%
156	Ukraine	10.3	-28.8%
157	Montenegro	10	-3%
158	Belarus	9.9	-7.1%
159	Monaco	9.7	-1.5%
160	Bhutan	9.4	-2.7%
161	Algeria	9	-3.9%
162	Isle of Man	8.8	-1.3%
163	Latvia	8.6	-12.5%
164	Brunei	8.6	+0.1%
165	Gibraltar	8.5	+2.3%
166	United Kingdom	8.4	-2.3%
167	Bahrain	8.1	-2.9%
168	Chile	7.7	-2.6%
169	Cyprus	7	-0.5%
170	Croatia	6.9	-7.9%
171	Greece	6.9	-12%
172	Czechia	6.9	-14.6%
173	Australia	6.7	-4.8%
174	Israel	6.7	-0.3%
175	Portugal	6.6	+14.3%
176	Lithuania	6.2	-9.3%
177	Libya	6.1	-3.1%
178	Poland	6	-11.6%
179	Malaysia	6	-6.1%
180	Oman	5.9	-12.9%
181	Maldives	5.6	-6.4%
182	Qatar	5.6	+15%
183	Germany	5.6	-10.6%
184	China	5.5	-8.9%
185	Estonia	5.3	-16.1%
186	Canada	4.9	-7.1%
187	Spain	4.8	+1.6%
188	Faroe Islands	4.8	-0.5%
189	Tunisia	4.5	+3.6%
190	Belgium	4.4	-5.1%
191	Austria	4.2	-5%
192	Ireland	4.2	-13.5%
193	Luxembourg	4	+10.4%
194	France	4	-19.5%
195	Andorra	3.5	+0.8%
196	Slovenia	3.5	-8%
197	Iceland	3.5	-15.3%
198	Finland	3.2	-14.1%
199	Italy	3	-0.9%
200	United Arab Emirates	2.9	+12.3%
201	Singapore	2.2	+0.5%
202	Netherlands	2.1	-7%
203	Sweden	2	-15.3%
204	Japan	1.8	-12.8%
205	Kuwait	1.7	-21.6%
206	Liechtenstein	1.6	0%
207	Bermuda	1.6	-3.1%
208	Norway	1.4	-17.7%
209	Switzerland	1.4	-5.8%
210	Denmark	1.2	-15.8%
211	San Marino	1.2	-1.6%
212	Hong Kong	1.1	-14.7%
213	South Korea	0.7	+20.8%
214	North Korea	0.5	-2.6%
215	Macao	0.5	-41.9%

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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.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

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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, 2022. World Bank, 8 Oct. 2026, https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/adolescent-birth-rate/countries?period=2022. 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, 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.ADO.TFRT, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/adolescent-birth-rate/countries?period=2022 (Accessed: 18 October 2026).

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Which country has the highest adolescent birth rate?

The Central African Republic, with 163 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 in 2022, according to the World Bank.

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Macao, with 0.5 births per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 in 2022.

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