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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Benin
Records
53
Source
Benin | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.282
1961 6.339
1962 6.394
1963 6.447
1964 6.497
1965 6.544
1966 6.588
1967 6.63
1968 6.671
1969 6.71
1970 6.748
1971 6.786
1972 6.823
1973 6.86
1974 6.896
1975 6.929
1976 6.959
1977 6.984
1978 7.004
1979 7.018
1980 7.025
1981 7.025
1982 7.021
1983 7.01
1984 6.994
1985 6.972
1986 6.942
1987 6.904
1988 6.858
1989 6.805
1990 6.744
1991 6.677
1992 6.603
1993 6.526
1994 6.446
1995 6.364
1996 6.282
1997 6.2
1998 6.12
1999 6.041
2000 5.966
2001 5.895
2002 5.828
2003 5.764
2004 5.702
2005 5.64
2006 5.577
2007 5.511
2008 5.44
2009 5.366
2010 5.287
2011 5.206
2012

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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Benin
Records
53
Source