East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | 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.
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The World Bank
Origin
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
Records
63
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East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.84198156 1960
4.38748734 1961
6.02657576 1962
7.06132957 1963
6.44519969 1964
6.38661225 1965
6.15850791 1966
5.78807766 1967
6.28446638 1968
6.0278147 1969
5.94613712 1970
5.51678223 1971
5.19976207 1972
4.88365913 1973
4.43243253 1974
3.96874016 1975
3.68966622 1976
3.37206285 1977
3.25125823 1978
3.24601142 1979
3.21441173 1980
3.22032979 1981
3.32267697 1982
2.99114254 1983
2.98943472 1984
2.96206076 1985
2.98631541 1986
2.98498339 1987
2.79955421 1988
2.76039677 1989
2.73383586 1990
2.30236476 1991
2.16593911 1992
2.08584277 1993
2.02103802 1994
1.9729211 1995
1.9315879 1996
1.89567713 1997
1.87046948 1998
1.85633559 1999
1.91312613 2000
1.8605106 2001
1.85366968 2002
1.84719352 2003
1.86543245 2004
1.87441765 2005
1.88681441 2006
1.90663025 2007
1.92917316 2008
1.93260923 2009
1.90563926 2010
1.89326515 2011
1.98232782 2012
1.91820128 2013
1.94895604 2014
1.87416332 2015
1.93389077 2016
1.9526445 2017
1.77759472 2018
1.73778424 2019
1.59726626 2020
1.52044206 2021
2022
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income) | 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
East Asia & Pacific (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source