Bangladesh’s adolescent fertility rate stood at 70.8 births per 1,000 women aged 15–19 in 2024, down from 152.6 in 2000 and 178.3 in 1990. That is a fall of more than half in 24 years.
71 per 1,000
Births per 1,000 women aged 15–19, 2024 (153 in 2000).
The decline has been steady rather than sudden: the rate was 115 in 2010, 89 in 2015 and 79 in 2019, and it has eased more slowly since, from 76 in 2021 to 73 in 2022 and 2023 and 71 in 2024. At the 2024 level, roughly one in fourteen women in this age group has a birth in a given year.
The data here do not show why the rate has fallen; they only show that the pace has slowed in recent years. For policy, the figure is a prompt to look at what shapes adolescent births, such as schooling, age at marriage and access to adolescent health services, rather than evidence for any one of them.
One caveat: these are modelled estimates from the UN Population Division, not a direct count, so small year-to-year movements should be read with caution.
Source: United Nations Population Division, World Population Prospects, via World Bank WDI (SP.ADO.TFRT).