Ecuador | 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
Republic of Ecuador
Records
63
Source
Ecuador | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.721
1961 6.7
1962 6.676
1963 6.646
1964 6.61
1965 6.564
1966 6.507
1967 6.436
1968 6.351
1969 6.252
1970 6.138
1971 6.011
1972 5.873
1973 5.727
1974 5.577
1975 5.426
1976 5.276
1977 5.13
1978 4.989
1979 4.855
1980 4.73
1981 4.612
1982 4.501
1983 4.395
1984 4.293
1985 4.195
1986 4.1
1987 4.007
1988 3.917
1989 3.829
1990 3.744
1991 3.665
1992 3.591
1993 3.524
1994 3.461
1995 3.403
1996 3.345
1997 3.288
1998 3.228
1999 3.166
2000 3.102
2001 3.037
2002 2.972
2003 2.911
2004 2.853
2005 2.8
2006 2.753
2007 2.711
2008 2.675
2009 2.643
2010 2.615
2011 2.596
2012 2.517
2013 2.419
2014 2.335
2015 2.26
2016 2.201
2017 2.174
2018 2.133
2019 2.088
2020 2.051
2021 2.026
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Ecuador | 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
Republic of Ecuador
Records
63
Source