Congo, 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
Republic of the Congo
Records
63
Source
Congo, Rep. | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.085
1961 6.093
1962 6.099
1963 6.147
1964 6.183
1965 6.229
1966 6.267
1967 6.29
1968 6.327
1969 6.35
1970 6.376
1971 6.416
1972 6.444
1973 6.42
1974 6.39
1975 6.356
1976 6.317
1977 6.271
1978 6.21
1979 6.143
1980 6.065
1981 5.984
1982 5.898
1983 5.811
1984 5.725
1985 5.645
1986 5.571
1987 5.487
1988 5.395
1989 5.305
1990 5.214
1991 5.16
1992 5.111
1993 5.057
1994 5
1995 4.973
1996 4.966
1997 4.962
1998 4.926
1999 4.853
2000 4.764
2001 4.712
2002 4.719
2003 4.7
2004 4.687
2005 4.663
2006 4.656
2007 4.666
2008 4.733
2009 4.792
2010 4.822
2011 4.791
2012 4.75
2013 4.691
2014 4.626
2015 4.564
2016 4.487
2017 4.433
2018 4.367
2019 4.296
2020 4.234
2021 4.171
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Congo, 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
Republic of the Congo
Records
63
Source