Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | 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
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Records
63
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Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.7028205 1960
6.72226562 1961
6.7445069 1962
6.76472538 1963
6.77909476 1964
6.79362333 1965
6.81207487 1966
6.83305922 1967
6.85493541 1968
6.87365872 1969
6.88938304 1970
6.90678612 1971
6.91817265 1972
6.92100748 1973
6.9279453 1974
6.93073672 1975
6.93252722 1976
6.93771696 1977
6.93352376 1978
6.92575136 1979
6.90921439 1980
6.889092 1981
6.86197029 1982
6.8392867 1983
6.81602245 1984
6.78850341 1985
6.76150944 1986
6.73182928 1987
6.68289437 1988
6.63542044 1989
6.5817661 1990
6.5282354 1991
6.47830543 1992
6.42718175 1993
6.36978988 1994
6.31955532 1995
6.26277759 1996
6.21232757 1997
6.15761423 1998
6.10448627 1999
6.04703801 2000
5.9870764 2001
5.93070022 2002
5.87190841 2003
5.8100552 2004
5.7557251 2005
5.6972546 2006
5.6296461 2007
5.56118261 2008
5.49536202 2009
5.42279173 2010
5.34028105 2011
5.25219872 2012
5.17623779 2013
5.09924951 2014
5.0327471 2015
4.96255803 2016
4.8890332 2017
4.82374272 2018
4.76241175 2019
4.69154038 2020
4.62029968 2021
2022
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC) | 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
Heavily indebted poor countries (HIPC)
Records
63
Source