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