Colombia | 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
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source
Colombia | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.735
1961 6.712
1962 6.663
1963 6.584
1964 6.475
1965 6.333
1966 6.159
1967 5.957
1968 5.737
1969 5.506
1970 5.276
1971 5.057
1972 4.857
1973 4.68
1974 4.527
1975 4.398
1976 4.285
1977 4.179
1978 4.074
1979 3.967
1980 3.856
1981 3.743
1982 3.632
1983 3.527
1984 3.43
1985 3.343
1986 3.269
1987 3.208
1988 3.158
1989 3.117
1990 3.082
1991 3.047
1992 3.01
1993 2.967
1994 2.918
1995 2.862
1996 2.802
1997 2.742
1998 2.683
1999 2.627
2000 2.572
2001 2.516
2002 2.458
2003 2.395
2004 2.33
2005 2.263
2006 2.198
2007 2.137
2008 2.081
2009 2.033
2010 1.992
2011 1.958
2012 1.93
2013 1.905
2014 1.883
2015 1.863
2016 1.843
2017 1.818
2018 1.787
2019 1.765
2020 1.737
2021 1.717
2022
Colombia | 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
Republic of Colombia
Records
63
Source