British Virgin Islands | 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.
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The World Bank
Origin
Virgin Islands
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63
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British Virgin Islands | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 5.162
1961 4.961
1962 4.762
1963 4.572
1964 4.376
1965 4.215
1966 4.097
1967 4.009
1968 3.946
1969 3.852
1970 3.775
1971 3.693
1972 3.61
1973 3.517
1974 3.425
1975 3.357
1976 3.285
1977 3.199
1978 3.123
1979 3.053
1980 2.933
1981 2.44
1982 2.306
1983 2.322
1984 1.942
1985 1.882
1986 1.638
1987 1.657
1988 1.525
1989 1.498
1990 1.585
1991 1.703
1992 1.681
1993 1.816
1994 1.646
1995 1.716
1996 1.802
1997 2.029
1998 1.501
1999 1.784
2000 1.866
2001 1.505
2002 1.24
2003 1.306
2004 1.505
2005 1.341
2006 1.232
2007 1.312
2008 1.282
2009 1.227
2010 1.183
2011 1.269
2012 1.103
2013 1.08
2014 1.237
2015 1.186
2016 0.987
2017 0.872
2018 0.917
2019 0.948
2020 0.976
2021 1.005
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British Virgin Islands | 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
Virgin Islands
Records
63
Source