Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | 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
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Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
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63
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Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 3.18423007
1961 3.14614344
1962 3.09532906
1963 3.03353603
1964 2.96197434
1965 2.93245974
1966 2.905377
1967 2.8530655
1968 2.81977675
1969 2.81426298
1970 2.82232109
1971 2.83724679
1972 2.82724022
1973 2.79438516
1974 2.77664598
1975 2.74189948
1976 2.71171154
1977 2.66712555
1978 2.63583099
1979 2.60693946
1980 2.57803735
1981 2.56748083
1982 2.62453694
1983 2.65985062
1984 2.63457757
1985 2.60135156
1986 2.63941434
1987 2.64231116
1988 2.56915901
1989 2.47321404
1990 2.37422881
1991 2.28353853
1992 2.14878949
1993 2.02247425
1994 1.9764029
1995 1.92118071
1996 1.84836771
1997 1.77699801
1998 1.73482998
1999 1.67456177
2000 1.66558442
2001 1.66742587
2002 1.66626841
2003 1.66866762
2004 1.70755296
2005 1.68147478
2006 1.71367432
2007 1.78109571
2008 1.85220379
2009 1.86529591
2010 1.86401902
2011 1.86545229
2012 1.9270629
2013 1.95167593
2014 1.99637472
2015 2.01158874
2016 1.99494048
2017 1.91191652
2018 1.89517488
2019 1.86277768
2020 1.86684361
2021 1.88275439
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Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | 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
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
Records
63
Source