Congo, Dem. Rep. | 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
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Records
63
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Congo, Dem. Rep. | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.08 1960
6.107 1961
6.132 1962
6.157 1963
6.183 1964
6.211 1965
6.237 1966
6.268 1967
6.298 1968
6.319 1969
6.343 1970
6.378 1971
6.402 1972
6.411 1973
6.416 1974
6.424 1975
6.425 1976
6.429 1977
6.441 1978
6.456 1979
6.465 1980
6.486 1981
6.498 1982
6.548 1983
6.599 1984
6.646 1985
6.693 1986
6.741 1987
6.73 1988
6.735 1989
6.702 1990
6.685 1991
6.667 1992
6.644 1993
6.668 1994
6.712 1995
6.72 1996
6.729 1997
6.73 1998
6.721 1999
6.718 2000
6.7 2001
6.672 2002
6.64 2003
6.618 2004
6.597 2005
6.59 2006
6.582 2007
6.578 2008
6.591 2009
6.587 2010
6.582 2011
6.559 2012
6.527 2013
6.483 2014
6.437 2015
6.392 2016
6.349 2017
6.302 2018
6.253 2019
6.206 2020
6.156 2021
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Congo, Dem. Rep. | 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
Democratic Republic of the Congo
Records
63
Source
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