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)
4.9700946 1960
4.76777406 1961
5.51283538 1962
5.97710878 1963
5.68264154 1964
5.63471562 1965
5.50253747 1966
5.31814108 1967
5.5163118 1968
5.36681498 1969
5.3027076 1970
5.08014512 1971
4.89916266 1972
4.72476784 1973
4.48956524 1974
4.23183944 1975
4.0807847 1976
3.89308454 1977
3.79492113 1978
3.75908754 1979
3.7186951 1980
3.69033328 1981
3.71750305 1982
3.53631953 1983
3.50796688 1984
3.45763098 1985
3.44932528 1986
3.41268543 1987
3.2762818 1988
3.20849118 1989
3.14607578 1990
2.88901909 1991
2.77435351 1992
2.68960187 1993
2.62068678 1994
2.55559652 1995
2.49682784 1996
2.44272188 1997
2.40065645 1998
2.3640048 1999
2.37414147 2000
2.3299331 2001
2.29603557 2002
2.26583729 2003
2.25724345 2004
2.23767574 2005
2.22071329 2006
2.21373451 2007
2.21536171 2008
2.20702466 2009
2.18063558 2010
2.16042169 2011
2.19100062 2012
2.148371 2013
2.14018163 2014
2.10054204 2015
2.11067516 2016
2.09072472 2017
2.00137297 2018
1.95030393 2019
1.86703726 2020
1.82439287 2021
2022
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