Antigua and Barbuda | 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
Antigua and Barbuda
Records
63
Source
Antigua and Barbuda | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 4.602
1961 4.559
1962 4.547
1963 4.536
1964 4.484
1965 4.416
1966 4.322
1967 4.178
1968 4.014
1969 3.829
1970 3.628
1971 3.455
1972 3.287
1973 3.126
1974 2.932
1975 2.77
1976 2.78
1977 2.784
1978 2.573
1979 2.632
1980 2.311
1981 2.166
1982 2.087
1983 2.116
1984 2.038
1985 2.151
1986 2.032
1987 2.067
1988 2.132
1989 2.199
1990 2.249
1991 2.036
1992 2.126
1993 2.036
1994 2.069
1995 2.159
1996 2.266
1997 2.19
1998 2.017
1999 1.956
2000 2.196
2001 2.018
2002 1.94
2003 1.887
2004 1.852
2005 1.832
2006 1.831
2007 1.86
2008 2.042
2009 2.006
2010 1.785
2011 1.746
2012 1.655
2013 1.537
2014 1.526
2015 1.567
2016 1.458
2017 1.485
2018 1.371
2019 1.468
2020 1.569
2021 1.58
2022

Antigua and Barbuda | 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
Antigua and Barbuda
Records
63
Source