Since then, follow-up reports on the Millennium Development Goals have indicated that the subregion with the highest adolescent fertility rates in the world is sub-Saharan Africa, where it is about 120 births per 1,000 women in this age group. Latin America has the second highest rate, which is still over 80 per 1,000, followed by the Caribbean, where the rate stands at 70 per 1,000. The average rate in the developed countries is currently 24 per 1,000, in developing countries it is 54 per 1,000 (see figure II.