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Countries with highest adolescent birth rate worldwide 2007-2016

Leading 20 countries based on adolescent birth rate from 2007 to 2016 (per 1,000 adolescent women)

The data displays the leading 20 countries based on adolescent birth rate from 2007 to 2016, per 1,000 women aged 15 to 19 years. In that period, the birth rate for women aged 15 to 19 years in the Central African Republic was 229 per 1,000 women of that age, the highest adolescent birth rate of any country worldwide.

Central African Republic 229
Chad 179
Equatorial Guinea 176
Mali 174
Mozambique 167
Angola 163
South Sudan 158.1
Madagascar 152
Congo 147
Niger 146
Guinea 146
Nigeria 145
Zambia 141
Uganda 141
Democratic Republic of the Congo 138
Malawi 136
United Republic of Tanzania 132
Côte d' Ivoire 129
Sierra Leone 125
Burkina Faso 122