Euro area | 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
Euro area
Records
63
Source
Euro area | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
2.60586373 1960
2.63697477 1961
2.64261994 1962
2.68193535 1963
2.73573666 1964
2.68267996 1965
2.66466407 1966
2.62063893 1967
2.5514551 1968
2.48843612 1969
2.3925099 1970
2.34443245 1971
2.2360709 1972
2.13101393 1973
2.09810927 1974
2.02165465 1975
1.98164055 1976
1.90627114 1977
1.85087965 1978
1.79972461 1979
1.77343639 1980
1.72441861 1981
1.69758064 1982
1.63898355 1983
1.60185907 1984
1.59086846 1985
1.57993758 1986
1.55818805 1987
1.56278021 1988
1.52966747 1989
1.5343571 1990
1.48893058 1991
1.46813052 1992
1.43508386 1993
1.39780378 1994
1.38294638 1995
1.396028 1996
1.41650702 1997
1.417357 1998
1.43095025 1999
1.47052896 2000
1.45651396 2001
1.45925137 2002
1.47369548 2003
1.49631759 2004
1.50028806 2005
1.52381047 2006
1.54069676 2007
1.581208 2008
1.56452492 2009
1.58044156 2010
1.56186318 2011
1.55437699 2012
1.53026535 2013
1.55135324 2014
1.54987107 2015
1.56939693 2016
1.54384436 2017
1.52406859 2018
1.50497141 2019
1.48114408 2020
1.50451574 2021
2022
Euro area | 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
Euro area
Records
63
Source