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