Benin | 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
Republic of Benin
Records
63
Source
Benin | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.282
1961 6.402
1962 6.457
1963 6.51
1964 6.565
1965 6.606
1966 6.638
1967 6.65
1968 6.683
1969 6.712
1970 6.743
1971 6.788
1972 6.824
1973 6.831
1974 6.842
1975 6.851
1976 6.857
1977 6.854
1978 6.843
1979 6.911
1980 6.99
1981 7.052
1982 7.051
1983 7.034
1984 7.018
1985 6.985
1986 6.948
1987 6.896
1988 6.847
1989 6.797
1990 6.732
1991 6.667
1992 6.596
1993 6.506
1994 6.413
1995 6.314
1996 6.261
1997 6.204
1998 6.097
1999 5.998
2000 5.89
2001 5.824
2002 5.777
2003 5.77
2004 5.721
2005 5.676
2006 5.636
2007 5.563
2008 5.483
2009 5.436
2010 5.39
2011 5.366
2012 5.347
2013 5.345
2014 5.348
2015 5.319
2016 5.303
2017 5.269
2018 5.199
2019 5.13
2020 5.048
2021 4.973
2022

Benin | 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
Republic of Benin
Records
63
Source