Argentina's teen birth rate fell 60% in ten years
Births per 1,000 women aged 15–19, 2013 and 2023, selected Latin American countries, UN estimates.
- 1. The world has already passed peak child
- 2. Japan's median age is more than three times Niger's
- 3. South Korea now has a quarter of its 1971 births
- 4. China's population is projected to more than halve by 2100
- 5. Japan now has over 100,000 centenarians, up from 153
- 6. Japan has 9 million empty homes: one in seven
- 7. One in ten in Japan will be foreign by 2070
- 8. Japan's foreign residents have doubled since 2012, passing 4 million
- 9. Jakarta, not Tokyo, is the world's largest city
- 10. Two in three newly licensed UK doctors qualified abroad
- 11. Iran dropped from top refugee host to fifth in 2025
- 12. More Christians live in sub-Saharan Africa than anywhere else
- 13. Two in three people live where fertility is below replacement
- 14. Japan's births fell below half their 1899 level
- 15. DR Congo now has more children than Brazil
- 16. Brazil now has more people over 65 than Germany
- 17. Egypt has more asylum seekers than Germany, Spain and Italy
- 18. 34 countries and territories are past their population peak
- 19. Chile's fertility rate fell below Italy's and Japan's
- 20. Nigeria now has almost 25 million more people than Brazil
- 21. Thailand's births have fallen below its deaths
- 22. Women hold at least half the seats in seven parliaments
- 23. Child marriage in South Asia has nearly halved since 2005
- 24. Six in ten child deaths now happen in sub-Saharan Africa
- 25. Pakistan now has more working-age people than Brazil
- 26. Argentina's teen birth rate fell 60% in ten years
Births per 1,000 Argentine women aged 15–19 in 2023, down from 66.1 in 2013.
Uruguay's and Costa Rica's falls, almost as steep. Latin America and the Caribbean as a whole fell 29%, to 51.2.
World rate in 2023. Argentina went from well above the world average (51.1 in 2013) to well below it.
the numbers & method
| 2013 | 2023 | |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 66.1 | 26.4 |
| Dominican Republic | 88.8 | 52.8 |
| Costa Rica | 61.2 | 26.3 |
| Panama | 92.0 | 57.3 |
| Uruguay | 60.5 | 26.2 |
| Ecuador | 83.5 | 55.5 |
| Brazil | 63.9 | 42.7 |
| Latin America & Caribbean | 71.7 | 51.2 |
| Guatemala | 88.5 | 68.3 |
| Colombia | 77.5 | 59.5 |
| Mexico | 77.8 | 60.1 |
Claim types Estimate
Series SP.ADO.TFRT 'Adolescent fertility rate (births per 1,000 women ages 15-19)', World Bank WDI, source UN DESA World Population Prospects 2024. Read from the World Bank API (WDI last updated 8 Oct 2026) on 4 Nov 2026. 2023 is the last year of WPP 2024 estimates (2024 values in the API are projections and are not used). Values 2013 → 2023: Argentina 66.1 → 26.4; Uruguay 60.5 → 26.2; Costa Rica 61.2 → 26.3; Dominican Republic 88.8 → 52.8; Panama 92.0 → 57.3; Ecuador 83.5 → 55.5; Brazil 63.9 → 42.7; Mexico 77.8 → 60.1; Colombia 77.5 → 59.5; Guatemala 88.5 → 68.3; Latin America & Caribbean (LCN) 71.7 → 51.2; World 51.1 → 39.1. Changes are progrss calculations: Argentina −60.1%, Uruguay −56.7%, Costa Rica −57.1%, region −28.6%. Chile is left out: its WPP series falls from 47.7 to 6.5, a drop we could not confirm against Chile's own vital statistics in this run. Rates are modelled UN estimates and may be revised. Two places with data fell further than Argentina: Chile (see above) and Puerto Rico, a US territory (44.2 → 14.1, −68.2%), not shown. Argentina's own birth registrations (Ministry of Health, DEIS birth files) count births to mothers aged 15–19 falling from 114,125 in 2013 to 39,504 in 2023, consistent with the scale of the fall.
Published 4 Nov 2026
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