Ghana | 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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Ghana
Records
53
Source
Ghana | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.749
1961 6.789
1962 6.827
1963 6.862
1964 6.893
1965 6.918
1966 6.937
1967 6.95
1968 6.957
1969 6.957
1970 6.95
1971 6.936
1972 6.915
1973 6.888
1974 6.855
1975 6.815
1976 6.771
1977 6.721
1978 6.665
1979 6.605
1980 6.539
1981 6.468
1982 6.392
1983 6.31
1984 6.223
1985 6.131
1986 6.035
1987 5.935
1988 5.831
1989 5.725
1990 5.616
1991 5.505
1992 5.392
1993 5.278
1994 5.166
1995 5.058
1996 4.957
1997 4.866
1998 4.786
1999 4.716
2000 4.656
2001 4.607
2002 4.564
2003 4.525
2004 4.487
2005 4.447
2006 4.402
2007 4.352
2008 4.297
2009 4.236
2010 4.17
2011 4.1
2012

Ghana | 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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of Ghana
Records
53
Source