IDA 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
IDA only
Records
63
Source
IDA only | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.62975265 1960
6.64471799 1961
6.66149564 1962
6.66442864 1963
6.66998461 1964
6.67054483 1965
6.67072801 1966
6.68299879 1967
6.68263929 1968
6.68178938 1969
6.68546635 1970
6.68350077 1971
6.6746275 1972
6.6452102 1973
6.61603434 1974
6.5857332 1975
6.5574201 1976
6.52541103 1977
6.51296816 1978
6.50464983 1979
6.48084395 1980
6.44296063 1981
6.39161311 1982
6.3297568 1983
6.276151 1984
6.20449553 1985
6.11869514 1986
6.03141044 1987
5.93412117 1988
5.8551312 1989
5.76651819 1990
5.67036427 1991
5.58086047 1992
5.49961494 1993
5.42925168 1994
5.34862699 1995
5.26369257 1996
5.2054574 1997
5.13273612 1998
5.06795096 1999
5.00399858 2000
4.9470436 2001
4.89189173 2002
4.82889284 2003
4.76489965 2004
4.70190536 2005
4.6429562 2006
4.58028826 2007
4.51736016 2008
4.45738833 2009
4.39194003 2010
4.32571004 2011
4.26308083 2012
4.21532582 2013
4.16578302 2014
4.12111359 2015
4.07418443 2016
4.01789961 2017
3.97987716 2018
3.94213699 2019
3.89271926 2020
3.84389604 2021
2022
IDA 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
IDA only
Records
63
Source