IDA blend | 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
IDA blend
Records
63
Source
IDA blend | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.60708065
1961 6.62141565
1962 6.64112722
1963 6.64159242
1964 6.65608064
1965 6.66829876
1966 6.67060836
1967 6.6710187
1968 6.66800723
1969 6.67251528
1970 6.68222201
1971 6.70308434
1972 6.71518901
1973 6.72616004
1974 6.74058785
1975 6.75262585
1976 6.74744398
1977 6.74328986
1978 6.7334502
1979 6.69578678
1980 6.65252359
1981 6.61035714
1982 6.57036287
1983 6.52721912
1984 6.47133222
1985 6.40905927
1986 6.3580513
1987 6.29180986
1988 6.23152008
1989 6.17691778
1990 6.10721591
1991 6.05185929
1992 5.96589922
1993 5.87308651
1994 5.7792049
1995 5.70520725
1996 5.60350737
1997 5.49635945
1998 5.3936106
1999 5.33595293
2000 5.27397898
2001 5.20641416
2002 5.15379525
2003 5.07159495
2004 5.00635471
2005 4.93703047
2006 4.89050438
2007 4.89195324
2008 4.86040392
2009 4.8015919
2010 4.72781832
2011 4.65754509
2012 4.58688558
2013 4.5275655
2014 4.45727711
2015 4.39729977
2016 4.34571625
2017 4.28696556
2018 4.23557396
2019 4.18478945
2020 4.13244212
2021 4.08093621
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IDA blend | 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
IDA blend
Records
63
Source