Dominica | 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
Commonwealth of Dominica
Records
63
Source
Dominica | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.866 1960
5.278 1961
5.21 1962
5.272 1963
4.894 1964
4.841 1965
5.858 1966
5.138 1967
4.964 1968
5.46 1969
5.135 1970
4.808 1971
4.475 1972
4.135 1973
3.844 1974
3.576 1975
3.359 1976
3.215 1977
3.108 1978
3.034 1979
2.995 1980
2.961 1981
2.961 1982
3.165 1983
2.906 1984
2.934 1985
2.959 1986
2.797 1987
3.016 1988
2.948 1989
2.96 1990
3.067 1991
3.281 1992
3.102 1993
2.874 1994
2.673 1995
2.519 1996
2.392 1997
2.333 1998
2.554 1999
2.351 2000
2.542 2001
2.276 2002
2.169 2003
2.125 2004
2.105 2005
2.158 2006
2.094 2007
2.027 2008
1.96 2009
1.915 2010
1.871 2011
1.824 2012
1.772 2013
1.734 2014
1.694 2015
1.657 2016
1.629 2017
1.617 2018
1.611 2019
1.597 2020
1.595 2021
2022
Dominica | 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
Commonwealth of Dominica
Records
63
Source