IDA 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.
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The World Bank
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IDA total
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63
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IDA total | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.62290373
1961 6.6376793
1962 6.65534876
1963 6.65754345
1964 6.66579735
1965 6.66986921
1966 6.67069205
1967 6.67940031
1968 6.67824567
1969 6.67900366
1970 6.68449045
1971 6.68940343
1972 6.68687729
1973 6.66970352
1974 6.65379728
1975 6.63646533
1976 6.6153897
1977 6.59216683
1978 6.58075096
1979 6.56365189
1980 6.53441414
1981 6.49587804
1982 6.44852533
1983 6.39272378
1984 6.33834053
1985 6.26973673
1986 6.19521965
1987 6.11485245
1988 6.02962388
1989 5.95866457
1990 5.87638803
1991 5.79366269
1992 5.70503265
1993 5.61971048
1994 5.54170803
1995 5.46328829
1996 5.37332131
1997 5.29966271
1998 5.21750662
1999 5.15530509
2000 5.09243636
2001 5.03242889
2002 4.9782
2003 4.90882599
2004 4.84444997
2005 4.77937564
2006 4.72449727
2007 4.68297879
2008 4.63049341
2009 4.57102923
2010 4.50296977
2011 4.43540939
2012 4.36995758
2013 4.3182113
2014 4.26164958
2015 4.21176287
2016 4.16309495
2017 4.10582266
2018 4.06330611
2019 4.02118066
2020 3.97071782
2021 3.92097936
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IDA 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 total
Records
63
Source