Guyana | 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
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Records
63
Source
Guyana | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.372 1960
6.305 1961
6.226 1962
6.14 1963
6.05 1964
5.957 1965
5.86 1966
5.756 1967
5.642 1968
5.517 1969
5.38 1970
5.226 1971
5.057 1972
4.877 1973
4.689 1974
4.503 1975
4.327 1976
4.169 1977
4.031 1978
3.915 1979
3.817 1980
3.728 1981
3.64 1982
3.548 1983
3.452 1984
3.354 1985
3.263 1986
3.186 1987
3.127 1988
3.089 1989
3.069 1990
3.063 1991
3.066 1992
3.071 1993
3.074 1994
3.074 1995
3.069 1996
3.061 1997
3.05 1998
3.036 1999
3.017 2000
2.992 2001
2.961 2002
2.924 2003
2.883 2004
2.84 2005
2.797 2006
2.755 2007
2.718 2008
2.684 2009
2.655 2010
2.63 2011
2.606 2012
2.582 2013
2.558 2014
2.534 2015
2.509 2016
2.485 2017
2.462 2018
2.44 2019
2.418 2020
2.397 2021
2022
Guyana | 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
Co-operative Republic of Guyana
Records
63
Source