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