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)
3.02158022 1960
3.01265922 1961
2.96975333 1962
2.94865373 1963
2.92690595 1964
2.83016181 1965
2.66813403 1966
2.71737342 1967
2.63760331 1968
2.58903323 1969
2.54817236 1970
2.47958164 1971
2.33945537 1972
2.25345245 1973
2.20692775 1974
2.11601863 1975
2.06370792 1976
2.0287176 1977
1.98678999 1978
1.99522788 1979
1.98317821 1980
1.93804559 1981
1.92298591 1982
1.88126719 1983
1.8566873 1984
1.85337691 1985
1.83110045 1986
1.82571064 1987
1.84511086 1988
1.8368037 1989
1.85172779 1990
1.8247748 1991
1.8029025 1992
1.76705814 1993
1.74772753 1994
1.71079177 1995
1.70361111 1996
1.69329414 1997
1.68047471 1998
1.67572341 1999
1.70628862 2000
1.66948384 2001
1.65347882 2002
1.66090108 2003
1.66924125 2004
1.66804805 2005
1.70821341 2006
1.73437204 2007
1.74353758 2008
1.71688309 2009
1.70345083 2010
1.68532441 2011
1.69295569 2012
1.65999955 2013
1.67253017 2014
1.67028988 2015
1.66558806 2016
1.63298424 2017
1.6057563 2018
1.57705399 2019
1.53373792 2020
1.54547787 2021
2022
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