today plate 171 · people on the move · 2023 data

Argentina's teen birth rate fell 60% in ten years

  • 26.4 Births per 1,000 Argentine women aged 15–19 in 2023, down from 66.1 in 2013.
  • −57% Uruguay's and Costa Rica's falls, almost as steep. Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole fell 29%, to 51.2.
  • 39.1 World rate in 2023. Argentina went from well above the world average (51.1 in 2013) to well below it.
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