Guinea-Bissau | 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 Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source
Guinea-Bissau | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 5.921
1961 5.931
1962 5.941
1963 5.951
1964 5.961
1965 5.971
1966 5.982
1967 5.994
1968 6.008
1969 6.024
1970 6.041
1971 6.06
1972 6.078
1973 6.098
1974 6.12
1975 6.15
1976 6.192
1977 6.249
1978 6.32
1979 6.401
1980 6.487
1981 6.569
1982 6.64
1983 6.694
1984 6.727
1985 6.739
1986 6.734
1987 6.717
1988 6.693
1989 6.663
1990 6.507
1991 6.452
1992 6.402
1993 6.323
1994 6.258
1995 6.172
1996 6.092
1997 6.008
1998 5.898
1999 5.793
2000 5.72
2001 5.63
2002 5.612
2003 5.566
2004 5.5
2005 5.454
2006 5.417
2007 5.399
2008 5.274
2009 5.152
2010 5.061
2011 5.047
2012 5.003
2013 4.937
2014 4.802
2015 4.671
2016 4.531
2017 4.358
2018 4.263
2019 4.172
2020 4.094
2021 4.005
2022
Guinea-Bissau | 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 Guinea-Bissau
Records
63
Source