Dominican Republic | 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
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source
Dominican Republic | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
7.555 1960
7.487 1961
7.404 1962
7.303 1963
7.186 1964
7.053 1965
6.949 1966
6.755 1967
6.548 1968
6.366 1969
6.184 1970
6.009 1971
5.841 1972
5.667 1973
5.44 1974
5.235 1975
5.046 1976
4.842 1977
4.644 1978
4.473 1979
4.302 1980
4.149 1981
4.014 1982
3.947 1983
3.822 1984
3.686 1985
3.603 1986
3.528 1987
3.5 1988
3.475 1989
3.411 1990
3.349 1991
3.287 1992
3.226 1993
3.163 1994
3.101 1995
3.04 1996
2.953 1997
2.873 1998
2.865 1999
2.859 2000
2.812 2001
2.774 2002
2.721 2003
2.664 2004
2.605 2005
2.533 2006
2.51 2007
2.533 2008
2.556 2009
2.538 2010
2.513 2011
2.485 2012
2.466 2013
2.445 2014
2.43 2015
2.406 2016
2.39 2017
2.381 2018
2.344 2019
2.303 2020
2.273 2021
2022
Dominican Republic | 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
Dominican Republic
Records
63
Source