Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Early-demographic dividend | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.16656173 1960
6.17700729 1961
6.18716593 1962
6.18862287 1963
6.18576332 1964
6.15576876 1965
6.11165234 1966
6.06968755 1967
6.01944323 1968
5.96622424 1969
5.91458018 1970
5.85617781 1971
5.78460974 1972
5.71044464 1973
5.6329402 1974
5.53668916 1975
5.46909676 1976
5.37232655 1977
5.28867178 1978
5.21914824 1979
5.16007828 1980
5.07930106 1981
5.00403866 1982
4.92701873 1983
4.85144591 1984
4.74637331 1985
4.66160594 1986
4.55895102 1987
4.45336309 1988
4.34891857 1989
4.24467198 1990
4.14972361 1991
4.04522799 1992
3.94930827 1993
3.85691 1994
3.76362092 1995
3.67417185 1996
3.59229911 1997
3.51142586 1998
3.43940097 1999
3.38143216 2000
3.32762169 2001
3.25161946 2002
3.17545707 2003
3.11495568 2004
3.05290903 2005
2.99299772 2006
2.9491145 2007
2.90229874 2008
2.85710287 2009
2.80549794 2010
2.76127039 2011
2.7216682 2012
2.6809892 2013
2.62107608 2014
2.58937439 2015
2.55452264 2016
2.50085276 2017
2.47233167 2018
2.42183953 2019
2.37773844 2020
2.35104772 2021
2022
Early-demographic dividend | 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
Early-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source