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