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