Gabon | 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
Gabonese Republic
Records
63
Source
Gabon | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.422 1960
4.504 1961
4.587 1962
4.649 1963
4.713 1964
4.785 1965
4.861 1966
4.919 1967
4.984 1968
5.049 1969
5.097 1970
5.163 1971
5.237 1972
5.287 1973
5.327 1974
5.391 1975
5.457 1976
5.516 1977
5.568 1978
5.608 1979
5.664 1980
5.726 1981
5.74 1982
5.759 1983
5.733 1984
5.713 1985
5.688 1986
5.667 1987
5.623 1988
5.55 1989
5.459 1990
5.373 1991
5.289 1992
5.186 1993
5.044 1994
4.884 1995
4.742 1996
4.657 1997
4.576 1998
4.502 1999
4.469 2000
4.417 2001
4.36 2002
4.299 2003
4.252 2004
4.21 2005
4.17 2006
4.142 2007
4.118 2008
4.138 2009
4.153 2010
4.151 2011
4.086 2012
4.019 2013
3.953 2014
3.889 2015
3.817 2016
3.752 2017
3.679 2018
3.615 2019
3.548 2020
3.491 2021
2022
Gabon | 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
Gabonese Republic
Records
63
Source