China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source
China | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.451 1960
3.863 1961
6.085 1962
7.513 1963
6.672 1964
6.605 1965
6.307 1966
5.806 1967
6.508 1968
6.175 1969
6.085 1970
5.523 1971
5.112 1972
4.726 1973
4.17 1974
3.571 1975
3.235 1976
2.844 1977
2.716 1978
2.745 1979
2.739 1980
2.792 1981
2.972 1982
2.559 1983
2.607 1984
2.633 1985
2.721 1986
2.76 1987
2.539 1988
2.52 1989
2.514 1990
1.934 1991
1.776 1992
1.691 1993
1.628 1994
1.588 1995
1.554 1996
1.527 1997
1.522 1998
1.53 1999
1.628 2000
1.563 2001
1.566 2002
1.57 2003
1.605 2004
1.624 2005
1.644 2006
1.666 2007
1.701 2008
1.714 2009
1.687 2010
1.668 2011
1.798 2012
1.714 2013
1.769 2014
1.67 2015
1.772 2016
1.813 2017
1.554 2018
1.496 2019
1.281 2020
1.164 2021
2022
China | 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
People's Republic of China
Records
63
Source