IDA & IBRD total | 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 & IBRD total
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63
Source
IDA & IBRD total | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.25116197 1960
5.08919617 1961
5.71057802 1962
6.09544689 1963
5.85429063 1964
5.81571356 1965
5.70671228 1966
5.5557085 1967
5.71876708 1968
5.5951164 1969
5.54244994 1970
5.3585248 1971
5.20774767 1972
5.06041078 1973
4.86433287 1974
4.65057614 1975
4.52474611 1976
4.36755333 1977
4.28488679 1978
4.25284045 1979
4.21550721 1980
4.1864678 1981
4.20204894 1982
4.04442673 1983
4.01204175 1984
3.95948415 1985
3.94088551 1986
3.89851667 1987
3.77378502 1988
3.70825031 1989
3.64537026 1990
3.42384603 1991
3.31795275 1992
3.23751887 1993
3.1715901 1994
3.10851846 1995
3.04810856 1996
2.99437288 1997
2.94932109 1998
2.91323558 1999
2.91496507 2000
2.87358785 2001
2.84140103 2002
2.80905533 2003
2.79481997 2004
2.77171001 2005
2.75329264 2006
2.74622509 2007
2.74324034 2008
2.73051241 2009
2.70184454 2010
2.67777312 2011
2.69310184 2012
2.65546844 2013
2.64322519 2014
2.60863519 2015
2.61250941 2016
2.59160665 2017
2.52290083 2018
2.48369085 2019
2.41892626 2020
2.3845571 2021
2022
IDA & IBRD total | 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 & IBRD total
Records
63
Source