High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source
High income | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 3.02158022
1961 3.01265922
1962 2.96975333
1963 2.94865373
1964 2.92690595
1965 2.83016181
1966 2.66813403
1967 2.71737342
1968 2.63760331
1969 2.58903323
1970 2.54817236
1971 2.47958164
1972 2.33945537
1973 2.25345245
1974 2.20692775
1975 2.11601863
1976 2.06370792
1977 2.0287176
1978 1.98678999
1979 1.99522788
1980 1.98317821
1981 1.93804559
1982 1.92298591
1983 1.88126719
1984 1.8566873
1985 1.85337691
1986 1.83110045
1987 1.82571064
1988 1.84511086
1989 1.8368037
1990 1.85172779
1991 1.8247748
1992 1.8029025
1993 1.76705814
1994 1.74772753
1995 1.71079177
1996 1.70361111
1997 1.69329414
1998 1.68047471
1999 1.67572341
2000 1.70628862
2001 1.66948384
2002 1.65347882
2003 1.66090108
2004 1.66924125
2005 1.66804805
2006 1.70821341
2007 1.73437204
2008 1.74353758
2009 1.71688309
2010 1.70345083
2011 1.68532441
2012 1.69295569
2013 1.65999955
2014 1.67253017
2015 1.67028988
2016 1.66558806
2017 1.63298424
2018 1.6057563
2019 1.57705399
2020 1.53373792
2021 1.54547787
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High income | 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
High income
Records
63
Source