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