Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
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63
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Fragile and conflict affected situations | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
year value
1960 5.6039336
1961 5.62609622
1962 5.67756808
1963 5.68538753
1964 5.69075383
1965 5.71476802
1966 5.73547143
1967 5.74622268
1968 5.75836116
1969 5.78011131
1970 5.79695315
1971 5.81848076
1972 5.82172166
1973 5.82255182
1974 5.8393157
1975 5.85280852
1976 5.8590505
1977 5.86936931
1978 5.89188955
1979 5.89269302
1980 5.87788738
1981 5.85769798
1982 5.85297405
1983 5.86108815
1984 5.8414192
1985 5.80210743
1986 5.77195394
1987 5.73309024
1988 5.69721456
1989 5.66187756
1990 5.61801985
1991 5.56972561
1992 5.5177041
1993 5.465697
1994 5.41897962
1995 5.37218509
1996 5.31187167
1997 5.25710919
1998 5.2046665
1999 5.17282823
2000 5.15234097
2001 5.12657021
2002 5.10234655
2003 5.07187529
2004 5.03469548
2005 4.99501783
2006 4.97581279
2007 4.95126577
2008 4.93470962
2009 4.90692828
2010 4.86978814
2011 4.83310827
2012 4.78644677
2013 4.73283337
2014 4.68375341
2015 4.64227694
2016 4.59913988
2017 4.54545766
2018 4.50008013
2019 4.45953951
2020 4.4118937
2021 4.35869853
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Fragile and conflict affected situations | 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
Fragile and conflict affected situations
Records
63
Source