Europe & Central Asia | 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
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63
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Europe & Central Asia | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 2.83142896
1961 2.8236825
1962 2.80145183
1963 2.79696818
1964 2.78728849
1965 2.74307495
1966 2.70860518
1967 2.70906953
1968 2.653336
1969 2.60300197
1970 2.55546207
1971 2.54032412
1972 2.4781225
1973 2.41359615
1974 2.39960855
1975 2.34426944
1976 2.30699471
1977 2.25091106
1978 2.21649312
1979 2.19285571
1980 2.16729633
1981 2.13208869
1982 2.14163421
1983 2.13278638
1984 2.11269877
1985 2.09780904
1986 2.10683525
1987 2.09790766
1988 2.06936866
1989 2.00873921
1990 1.96258246
1991 1.89941848
1992 1.8218968
1993 1.74572236
1994 1.70416974
1995 1.65954824
1996 1.6292774
1997 1.60028317
1998 1.57623156
1999 1.54841067
2000 1.55847742
2001 1.54949315
2002 1.5483341
2003 1.55971617
2004 1.5919347
2005 1.58648753
2006 1.61788385
2007 1.6614855
2008 1.72089818
2009 1.72186409
2010 1.72804675
2011 1.71282778
2012 1.74223517
2013 1.73515169
2014 1.76738275
2015 1.77500891
2016 1.78058522
2017 1.73385901
2018 1.71559795
2019 1.68912351
2020 1.67624028
2021 1.69290627
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Europe & Central Asia | 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
Records
63
Source