East Asia & Pacific | 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
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63
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East Asia & Pacific | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 4.56160602
1961 4.17012454
1962 5.54053974
1963 6.39936965
1964 5.87461838
1965 5.82692813
1966 5.57170819
1967 5.32275038
1968 5.73439855
1969 5.52171865
1970 5.45945257
1971 5.10073057
1972 4.81914619
1973 4.54902466
1974 4.14694352
1975 3.72501916
1976 3.4734378
1977 3.19398768
1978 3.08330074
1979 3.08659206
1980 3.05668894
1981 3.05699761
1982 3.14437083
1983 2.84976489
1984 2.84054906
1985 2.81193134
1986 2.82721157
1987 2.82512306
1988 2.66496878
1989 2.62344878
1990 2.6017446
1991 2.22299333
1992 2.10322811
1993 2.02798706
1994 1.97330332
1995 1.92557113
1996 1.88758215
1997 1.85280194
1998 1.82440231
1999 1.81046897
2000 1.86633985
2001 1.81003578
2002 1.80020141
2003 1.79234665
2004 1.80848216
2005 1.81378634
2006 1.83053585
2007 1.85330403
2008 1.87358168
2009 1.87554169
2010 1.85256667
2011 1.84425313
2012 1.92996093
2013 1.86671191
2014 1.89568574
2015 1.83003181
2016 1.88130162
2017 1.89429685
2018 1.73283694
2019 1.69204979
2020 1.5596701
2021 1.48943217
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East Asia & Pacific | 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
Records
63
Source