Latin America: birth rate before age 18 as of 2018, by country
As of 2018, 28 percent of women aged 20 to 24 gave birth before age 18 in Nicaragua. This was the highest birth rate before age 18 in the Latin American and Caribbean countries shown in the graph. Venezuela recorded the second highest adolescent birth rate, as around 24 percent of the women aged 20 to 24 had had a child before turning 18. Cuba, on the other hand, had one of the lowest birth rates before 18 in the region, at only 6 percent.
