Arab World | 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
Arab World
Records
63
Source
Arab World | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.93433242 1960
6.98211503 1961
7.07611222 1962
7.07154168 1963
7.06196885 1964
7.03356037 1965
7.0129606 1966
6.98753733 1967
6.95769729 1968
6.92373575 1969
6.88564619 1970
6.83679757 1971
6.78657777 1972
6.72709056 1973
6.68088981 1974
6.63630873 1975
6.58082617 1976
6.52351911 1977
6.47403101 1978
6.4373652 1979
6.3539933 1980
6.26687997 1981
6.18503522 1982
6.09644295 1983
5.98697256 1984
5.87241776 1985
5.73749622 1986
5.60027898 1987
5.45047678 1988
5.28903198 1989
5.14772574 1990
5.00625996 1991
4.89388919 1992
4.74760012 1993
4.60798721 1994
4.4428235 1995
4.28437188 1996
4.1651633 1997
4.06164001 1998
3.96270255 1999
3.87858875 2000
3.80778335 2001
3.72736884 2002
3.6706903 2003
3.61668399 2004
3.57659571 2005
3.54750922 2006
3.53214915 2007
3.50853305 2008
3.49278003 2009
3.50419807 2010
3.50802136 2011
3.51281506 2012
3.51351816 2013
3.50017425 2014
3.4710381 2015
3.37135781 2016
3.32588193 2017
3.27999375 2018
3.22451895 2019
3.18600278 2020
3.1425652 2021
2022
Arab World | 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
Arab World
Records
63
Source