Gambia, The | 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
Republic of the Gambia
Records
63
Source
Gambia, The | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.246
1961 6.228
1962 6.213
1963 6.202
1964 6.195
1965 6.192
1966 6.183
1967 6.206
1968 6.221
1969 6.246
1970 6.257
1971 6.275
1972 6.321
1973 6.367
1974 6.382
1975 6.405
1976 6.433
1977 6.429
1978 6.421
1979 6.41
1980 6.404
1981 6.4
1982 6.388
1983 6.378
1984 6.365
1985 6.344
1986 6.332
1987 6.293
1988 6.261
1989 6.238
1990 6.218
1991 6.173
1992 6.105
1993 6.043
1994 6.037
1995 6.008
1996 5.956
1997 5.922
1998 5.93
1999 5.871
2000 5.801
2001 5.752
2002 5.728
2003 5.699
2004 5.705
2005 5.719
2006 5.757
2007 5.734
2008 5.708
2009 5.685
2010 5.669
2011 5.64
2012 5.586
2013 5.51
2014 5.416
2015 5.314
2016 5.197
2017 5.091
2018 4.972
2019 4.869
2020 4.777
2021 4.684
2022

Gambia, The | 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
Republic of the Gambia
Records
63
Source