2.37 South Sudan
Caution: South Sudan 2010 MICS Survey. Half of women in dataset have a missing date of birth, which means they could not be included in the data analysis and therefore the estimates are unlikely to be representative. Given that women who are the least educated are the most likely to be unable to give a date of birth, and are also most likely to have the earliest and most adolescent births, the estimates probably undercount adolescent fertility in the country. Also more likely that the older women with least education and most adolescent fertility are unable to give their date of birth, which could contribute to lower adolescent fertility in earliest cohorts compared to more recent cohorts.