early and later childbearing among adolescent women
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Corporate
- United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division
- Publish Year
- 2020
- Shelfmark
- digitaal
- Thesaurus
- vruchtbaarheid, demografie, adolescenten, 21e eeuw, statistiek
- Description
- This report presents the latest analysis of levels and trends in adolescent fertility worldwide over the past 30 years. The period under review, from 1990-1995 to 2015-2020, included the adoption in 1994, the implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development as well as the period of the Millennium Development Goals until 2015 and the first five years of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals. . .Chapter 1 presents a summary of the sources of data and estimation methods. Chapter 2 reviews the levels and trends in adolescent birth rates for each country or area in the world with a population of at least 90,000. Chapter 3 presents adolescent fertility disaggregated into age groups 15-17 and 18-19 for selected countries with available data. Chapter 4 presents summary policy considerations.