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
Origin
IDA total
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63
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IDA total | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.62290373 1960
6.6376793 1961
6.65534876 1962
6.65754345 1963
6.66579735 1964
6.66986921 1965
6.67069205 1966
6.67940031 1967
6.67824567 1968
6.67900366 1969
6.68449045 1970
6.68940343 1971
6.68687729 1972
6.66970352 1973
6.65379728 1974
6.63646533 1975
6.6153897 1976
6.59216683 1977
6.58075096 1978
6.56365189 1979
6.53441414 1980
6.49587804 1981
6.44852533 1982
6.39272378 1983
6.33834053 1984
6.26973673 1985
6.19521965 1986
6.11485245 1987
6.02962388 1988
5.95866457 1989
5.87638803 1990
5.79366269 1991
5.70503265 1992
5.61971048 1993
5.54170803 1994
5.46328829 1995
5.37332131 1996
5.29966271 1997
5.21750662 1998
5.15530509 1999
5.09243636 2000
5.03242889 2001
4.9782 2002
4.90882599 2003
4.84444997 2004
4.77937564 2005
4.72449727 2006
4.68297879 2007
4.63049341 2008
4.57102923 2009
4.50296977 2010
4.43540939 2011
4.36995758 2012
4.3182113 2013
4.26164958 2014
4.21176287 2015
4.16309495 2016
4.10582266 2017
4.06330611 2018
4.02118066 2019
3.97071782 2020
3.92097936 2021
2022
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