IBRD only | 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
IBRD only
Records
63
Source
IBRD only | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 4.9700946
1961 4.76777406
1962 5.51283538
1963 5.97710878
1964 5.68264154
1965 5.63471562
1966 5.50253747
1967 5.31814108
1968 5.5163118
1969 5.36681498
1970 5.3027076
1971 5.08014512
1972 4.89916266
1973 4.72476784
1974 4.48956524
1975 4.23183944
1976 4.0807847
1977 3.89308454
1978 3.79492113
1979 3.75908754
1980 3.7186951
1981 3.69033328
1982 3.71750305
1983 3.53631953
1984 3.50796688
1985 3.45763098
1986 3.44932528
1987 3.41268543
1988 3.2762818
1989 3.20849118
1990 3.14607578
1991 2.88901909
1992 2.77435351
1993 2.68960187
1994 2.62068678
1995 2.55559652
1996 2.49682784
1997 2.44272188
1998 2.40065645
1999 2.3640048
2000 2.37414147
2001 2.3299331
2002 2.29603557
2003 2.26583729
2004 2.25724345
2005 2.23767574
2006 2.22071329
2007 2.21373451
2008 2.21536171
2009 2.20702466
2010 2.18063558
2011 2.16042169
2012 2.19100062
2013 2.148371
2014 2.14018163
2015 2.10054204
2016 2.11067516
2017 2.09072472
2018 2.00137297
2019 1.95030393
2020 1.86703726
2021 1.82439287
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IBRD only | 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
IBRD only
Records
63
Source