Guatemala | 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 Guatemala
Records
63
Source
Guatemala | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.955
1961 6.933
1962 6.89
1963 6.869
1964 6.847
1965 6.823
1966 6.799
1967 6.754
1968 6.706
1969 6.655
1970 6.6
1971 6.546
1972 6.511
1973 6.487
1974 6.458
1975 6.41
1976 6.368
1977 6.319
1978 6.261
1979 6.216
1980 6.171
1981 6.121
1982 6.057
1983 5.976
1984 5.855
1985 5.729
1986 5.663
1987 5.639
1988 5.621
1989 5.559
1990 5.48
1991 5.377
1992 5.314
1993 5.254
1994 5.191
1995 5.105
1996 5.008
1997 4.906
1998 4.8
1999 4.687
2000 4.583
2001 4.502
2002 4.371
2003 4.25
2004 4.134
2005 3.974
2006 3.845
2007 3.716
2008 3.571
2009 3.465
2010 3.375
2011 3.292
2012 3.219
2013 3.151
2014 3.088
2015 3.029
2016 2.973
2017 2.857
2018 2.743
2019 2.61
2020 2.484
2021 2.395
2022

Guatemala | 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 Guatemala
Records
63
Source