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
Origin
Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income)
Records
63
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Europe & Central Asia (excluding high income) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
3.18423007 1960
3.14614344 1961
3.09532906 1962
3.03353603 1963
2.96197434 1964
2.93245974 1965
2.905377 1966
2.8530655 1967
2.81977675 1968
2.81426298 1969
2.82232109 1970
2.83724679 1971
2.82724022 1972
2.79438516 1973
2.77664598 1974
2.74189948 1975
2.71171154 1976
2.66712555 1977
2.63583099 1978
2.60693946 1979
2.57803735 1980
2.56748083 1981
2.62453694 1982
2.65985062 1983
2.63457757 1984
2.60135156 1985
2.63941434 1986
2.64231116 1987
2.56915901 1988
2.47321404 1989
2.37422881 1990
2.28353853 1991
2.14878949 1992
2.02247425 1993
1.9764029 1994
1.92118071 1995
1.84836771 1996
1.77699801 1997
1.73482998 1998
1.67456177 1999
1.66558442 2000
1.66742587 2001
1.66626841 2002
1.66866762 2003
1.70755296 2004
1.68147478 2005
1.71367432 2006
1.78109571 2007
1.85220379 2008
1.86529591 2009
1.86401902 2010
1.86545229 2011
1.9270629 2012
1.95167593 2013
1.99637472 2014
2.01158874 2015
1.99494048 2016
1.91191652 2017
1.89517488 2018
1.86277768 2019
1.86684361 2020
1.88275439 2021
2022
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