Adolescent Fertility Rate by country
Births per 1,000 women aged 15-19. A composite signal of educational access, contraceptive availability, and economic opportunity for young women. Persistent high values mark inter-generational poverty traps.
Global trend
Mean stress score across all countries for which data is available, over the last 12 months.
Where the pressure is concentrated
The five most-affected and five least-affected countries on this indicator right now.
Most affected
- 1Mexico59.3 per 1,000 women72
- 2South Africa51.8 per 1,000 women63
- 3Brazil41.5 per 1,000 women49
- 4Argentina25.6 per 1,000 women27
- 5India13.0 per 1,000 women11
Least affected
- 1Singapore2.21 per 1,000 women0
- 2Sweden1.70 per 1,000 women0
- 3Norway1.28 per 1,000 women0
- 4Netherlands1.75 per 1,000 women0
- 5South Korea0.53 per 1,000 women0
Full ranking
All 25 tracked countries, ordered from most to least affected. Click any country to see its full composite breakdown.
| # | Country | Raw value | Stress score | As of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mexico | 59.3 per 1,000 women | 72.4 | 2024-12-31 |
| 2 | South Africa | 51.8 per 1,000 women | 62.5 | 2024-12-31 |
| 3 | Brazil | 41.5 per 1,000 women | 48.6 | 2024-12-31 |
| 4 | Argentina | 25.6 per 1,000 women | 27.4 | 2024-12-31 |
| 5 | India | 13.0 per 1,000 women | 10.7 | 2024-12-31 |
| 6 | United States | 12.4 per 1,000 women | 9.9 | 2024-12-31 |
| 7 | Turkey | 11.2 per 1,000 women | 8.2 | 2024-12-31 |
| 8 | New Zealand | 10.3 per 1,000 women | 7.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 9 | United Kingdom | 7.82 per 1,000 women | 3.8 | 2024-12-31 |
| 10 | Australia | 6.42 per 1,000 women | 1.9 | 2024-12-31 |
| 11 | Poland | 5.85 per 1,000 women | 1.1 | 2024-12-31 |
| 12 | Israel | 5.70 per 1,000 women | 0.9 | 2024-12-31 |
| 13 | Germany | 5.24 per 1,000 women | 0.3 | 2024-12-31 |
| 14 | UAE | 2.82 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 15 | Canada | 4.50 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 16 | Switzerland | 1.48 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 17 | Spain | 4.85 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 18 | France | 3.30 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 19 | Italy | 2.87 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 20 | Japan | 1.63 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 21 | South Korea | 0.53 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 22 | Netherlands | 1.75 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 23 | Norway | 1.28 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 24 | Sweden | 1.70 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
| 25 | Singapore | 2.21 per 1,000 women | 0.0 | 2024-12-31 |
Why it matters
Adolescent Fertility Rate is a contributing indicator to the Social meta-index, one of the five dimensions of The Human Index composite. Higher raw value = more stress.
Movements in this indicator are tracked daily and feed into every country's composite score on the next cron cycle.
Recent analysis
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Raw values are normalized to a 0–100 stress scale per the bounds documented in the codebase. See methodology for the full normalization and band-threshold derivation.