Before you play

What This Teen-Birth Figure Means

This game compares adolescent fertility rate across countries.

  • The number is births per 1,000 women ages 15 to 19.
  • It reflects sex education, contraception, coercion, poverty, schooling, and the options a teenager is actually allowed to have.
  • A birth rate can sound demographic right up until you remember how young the denominator is.

When adolescence becomes a fertility statistic, the surrounding system is already in the room.