Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source
Burkina Faso | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.248 1960
6.286 1961
6.322 1962
6.356 1963
6.419 1964
6.471 1965
6.527 1966
6.585 1967
6.645 1968
6.664 1969
6.685 1970
6.698 1971
6.719 1972
6.77 1973
6.842 1974
6.913 1975
6.952 1976
7.046 1977
7.148 1978
7.194 1979
7.222 1980
7.256 1981
7.253 1982
7.251 1983
7.245 1984
7.242 1985
7.218 1986
7.168 1987
7.109 1988
7.047 1989
7.009 1990
6.973 1991
6.936 1992
6.889 1993
6.843 1994
6.814 1995
6.779 1996
6.724 1997
6.661 1998
6.586 1999
6.519 2000
6.431 2001
6.339 2002
6.28 2003
6.216 2004
6.182 2005
6.17 2006
6.11 2007
6.05 2008
5.992 2009
5.936 2010
5.869 2011
5.793 2012
5.697 2013
5.595 2014
5.478 2015
5.324 2016
5.162 2017
5.069 2018
4.971 2019
4.869 2020
4.772 2021
2022
Burkina Faso | 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
Burkina Faso
Records
63
Source