East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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 (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
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East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.86422906 1960
4.40756294 1961
6.07371321 1962
7.12362865 1963
6.49794677 1964
6.43797556 1965
6.20223316 1966
5.81830234 1967
6.3254077 1968
6.06390367 1969
5.98049228 1970
5.54546518 1971
5.22068409 1972
4.90798076 1973
4.45291961 1974
3.98337576 1975
3.70322016 1976
3.38154328 1977
3.25837394 1978
3.25208077 1979
3.22005478 1980
3.22602486 1981
3.33101472 1982
2.99565327 1983
2.99473649 1984
2.96760499 1985
2.99277969 1986
2.99256167 1987
2.80502128 1988
2.76613853 1989
2.73914331 1990
2.30186059 1991
2.16425165 1992
2.08369656 1993
2.01865811 1994
1.97045338 1995
1.92935348 1996
1.89397914 1997
1.86876273 1998
1.8546895 1999
1.91244717 2000
1.85903697 2001
1.85257628 2002
1.84637608 2003
1.86424615 2004
1.87343046 2005
1.88594312 2006
1.90602781 2007
1.92859023 2008
1.93239136 2009
1.90684451 2010
1.89429176 2011
1.98414832 2012
1.918936 2013
1.94976746 2014
1.87404995 2015
1.93470646 2016
1.95385838 2017
1.77675885 2018
1.73651229 2019
1.59451189 2020
1.51684617 2021
2022
East Asia & Pacific (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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 (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source