Fertility of Young Women Ages 15 to 19, 1995 & 2020

Country

Number of Women
(in thousands)

Annual Births 
(per 1,000 women)

Births
(in thousands)

1995

2020

1995

2020

1995

2020

World

253,809

315,393

60

48

15,313

15,029

Sub-Saharan Africa

30,985

62,351

143

87

4,416

5,403

Angola

501

1,037

119

75

60

78

Benin

300

663

143

92

43

61

Botswana

80

97

90

36

7

4

Burkina Faso

561

1,090

145

84

81

91

Burundi

327

602

57

76

19

46

Cameroon

733

1,486

132

98

96

145

Cape Verde

23

45

62

44

1

2

Central African Republic

163

267

146

86

24

23

Chad

293

500

196

114

57

57

Comoros

29

69

136

82

4

6

Congo

134

214

116

64

16

14

Cote d'Ivoire

777

1,727

223

107

173

185

Djibouti

22

40

202

112

4

5

Equatorial Guinea

21

41

161

95

3

4

Ethiopia

3,115

6,732

112

72

348

483

Gabon

54

79

155

87

8

7

Gambia

53

113

192

113

10

13

Ghana

859

1,883

116

74

100

140

Guinea

337

611

169

66

57

40

Guinea-Bissau

61

99

96

56

6

6

Kenya

1,667

2,596

128

52

214

136

Lesotho

106

159

65

42

7

7

Liberia

152

338

173

102

26

34

Madagascar

710

1,593

137

84

97

134

Malawi

523

989

159

97

83

96

Mali

504

1,128

244

152

123

172

Mauritania

121

273

165

96

20

26

Mauritius

55

51

47

41

3

2

Mayotte

5

13

260

139

1

2

Mozambique

953

1,903

124

77

118

147

Namibia

84

197

81

57

7

11

Niger

491

1,175

259

157

127

185

Nigeria

5,199

11,631

176

100

913

1,167

Reunion

28

37

51

41

1

2

Rwanda

477

906

76

56

36

51

Sao Tome & Principe

8

11

87

45

1

1

Senegal

488

1,014

141

91

69

92

Seychelles

4

3

46

40

—

—

Sierra Leone

244

493

219

119

53

59

Somalia

367

900

57

74

21

67

South Africa

2,228

4,072

81

54

181

221

Sudan

1,561

3,060

103

57

161

176

Swaziland

55

114

68

63

4

7

Tanzania

1,630

2,898

157

99

256

288

Togo

231

551

151

94

35

52

Uganda

1,040

1,816

170

92

177

166

Zaire

2,394

5,269

173

108

415

571

Zambia

533

954

160

98

85

93

Zimbabwe

685

809

93

40

64

33