Africa Eastern and Southern | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Eastern and Southern
Records
63
Source
Africa Eastern and Southern | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.72412501 1960
6.7427521 1961
6.76293006 1962
6.77871194 1963
6.78842004 1964
6.80032228 1965
6.81057132 1966
6.81861205 1967
6.82855998 1968
6.83441842 1969
6.83830442 1970
6.84498829 1971
6.8410966 1972
6.83224265 1973
6.82042926 1974
6.80517177 1975
6.78599506 1976
6.76794303 1977
6.75040282 1978
6.73027624 1979
6.70462344 1980
6.67236184 1981
6.63848914 1982
6.60440813 1983
6.56569583 1984
6.51495732 1985
6.46430998 1986
6.41948882 1987
6.34494192 1988
6.26383764 1989
6.16660843 1990
6.09985759 1991
6.02833893 1992
5.95897282 1993
5.89744193 1994
5.84475913 1995
5.77486441 1996
5.70146554 1997
5.64322173 1998
5.58698767 1999
5.52355316 2000
5.48162442 2001
5.43047454 2002
5.38084646 2003
5.3431591 2004
5.30711992 2005
5.26769087 2006
5.22457528 2007
5.19259198 2008
5.11515623 2009
5.04079676 2010
4.9626109 2011
4.87901792 2012
4.8088197 2013
4.7398612 2014
4.67761774 2015
4.61566986 2016
4.57040889 2017
4.52770519 2018
4.48289807 2019
4.41690032 2020
4.35470911 2021
2022
Africa Eastern and Southern | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Total fertility rate represents the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her childbearing years and bear children in accordance with age-specific fertility rates of the specified year. Development relevance: Reproductive health is a state of physical and mental well-being in relation to the reproductive system and its functions and processes. Means of achieving reproductive health include education and services during pregnancy and childbirth, safe and effective contraception, and prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases. Complications of pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death and disability among women of reproductive age in developing countries. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series from United Nations Population Division's World Population Prospects are interpolated data from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data. Statistical concept and methodology: Total fertility rates are based on data on registered live births from vital registration systems or, in the absence of such systems, from censuses or sample surveys. The estimated rates are generally considered reliable measures of fertility in the recent past. Where no empirical information on age-specific fertility rates is available, a model is used to estimate the share of births to adolescents. For countries without vital registration systems fertility rates are generally based on extrapolations from trends observed in censuses or surveys from earlier years.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Africa Eastern and Southern
Records
63
Source