Bahamas, The | 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
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Records
63
Source
Bahamas, The | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.818 1960
4.866 1961
4.799 1962
4.729 1963
4.639 1964
4.542 1965
4.438 1966
4.368 1967
4.28 1968
4.182 1969
4.069 1970
3.974 1971
3.89 1972
3.74 1973
3.526 1974
3.259 1975
3.221 1976
3.17 1977
3.063 1978
2.983 1979
2.901 1980
2.853 1981
2.802 1982
2.737 1983
2.685 1984
2.63 1985
2.587 1986
2.529 1987
2.478 1988
2.484 1989
2.527 1990
2.604 1991
2.793 1992
2.728 1993
2.482 1994
2.504 1995
2.36 1996
2.399 1997
2.335 1998
2.133 1999
2.097 2000
2.088 2001
1.998 2002
1.921 2003
1.932 2004
2.05 2005
1.786 2006
1.852 2007
1.99 2008
2.009 2009
1.835 2010
1.739 2011
1.744 2012
1.51 2013
1.673 2014
1.576 2015
1.496 2016
1.426 2017
1.412 2018
1.398 2019
1.394 2020
1.389 2021
2022
Bahamas, The | 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
Commonwealth of The Bahamas
Records
63
Source