Ethiopia | 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
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Records
63
Source
Ethiopia | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.88
1961 6.877
1962 6.875
1963 6.872
1964 6.867
1965 6.864
1966 6.867
1967 6.88
1968 6.903
1969 6.937
1970 6.978
1971 7.02
1972 7.06
1973 7.094
1974 7.121
1975 7.143
1976 7.188
1977 7.255
1978 7.296
1979 7.31
1980 7.334
1981 7.357
1982 7.372
1983 7.383
1984 7.4
1985 7.378
1986 7.359
1987 7.338
1988 7.303
1989 7.271
1990 7.238
1991 7.207
1992 7.157
1993 7.125
1994 7.076
1995 7.008
1996 6.923
1997 6.85
1998 6.753
1999 6.646
2000 6.56
2001 6.463
2002 6.374
2003 6.24
2004 6.107
2005 5.973
2006 5.853
2007 5.74
2008 5.571
2009 5.39
2010 5.217
2011 5.05
2012 4.883
2013 4.724
2014 4.609
2015 4.531
2016 4.469
2017 4.39
2018 4.343
2019 4.323
2020 4.243
2021 4.159
2022
Ethiopia | 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
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
Records
63
Source