Caribbean small states | 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
Caribbean small states
Records
63
Source
Caribbean small states | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 5.72791323
1961 5.6278891
1962 5.5593663
1963 5.55183057
1964 5.53580755
1965 5.46097649
1966 5.39270764
1967 5.2859393
1968 5.18549804
1969 5.04890527
1970 4.93382608
1971 4.81853608
1972 4.67713749
1973 4.4866095
1974 4.28502766
1975 4.0952285
1976 3.92367043
1977 3.82648871
1978 3.72619702
1979 3.6447195
1980 3.56332165
1981 3.49680991
1982 3.43349407
1983 3.35954852
1984 3.26821956
1985 3.20920953
1986 3.1334725
1987 3.0483634
1988 2.96718094
1989 2.89975475
1990 2.80453632
1991 2.79359187
1992 2.795558
1993 2.75846362
1994 2.70568141
1995 2.65516217
1996 2.5452738
1997 2.52162317
1998 2.47114774
1999 2.39234833
2000 2.28525088
2001 2.25233706
2002 2.2153266
2003 2.18431455
2004 2.16514586
2005 2.13318579
2006 2.11103509
2007 2.0427558
2008 2.03656827
2009 2.01130888
2010 1.9420484
2011 1.92613733
2012 1.90578584
2013 1.85957253
2014 1.83345236
2015 1.82700194
2016 1.78423686
2017 1.74020087
2018 1.71183623
2019 1.68786975
2020 1.67128941
2021 1.66452204
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Caribbean small states | 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
Caribbean small states
Records
63
Source