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