India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source
India | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.921 1960
5.937 1961
5.953 1962
5.969 1963
5.979 1964
5.941 1965
5.881 1966
5.825 1967
5.76 1968
5.684 1969
5.624 1970
5.565 1971
5.482 1972
5.402 1973
5.325 1974
5.195 1975
5.13 1976
5.007 1977
4.888 1978
4.808 1979
4.775 1980
4.698 1981
4.62 1982
4.565 1983
4.516 1984
4.432 1985
4.399 1986
4.311 1987
4.222 1988
4.132 1989
4.045 1990
3.959 1991
3.877 1992
3.799 1993
3.723 1994
3.651 1995
3.582 1996
3.514 1997
3.446 1998
3.383 1999
3.35 2000
3.303 2001
3.217 2002
3.122 2003
3.046 2004
2.958 2005
2.864 2006
2.784 2007
2.718 2008
2.673 2009
2.603 2010
2.536 2011
2.467 2012
2.406 2013
2.306 2014
2.287 2015
2.273 2016
2.2 2017
2.177 2018
2.109 2019
2.051 2020
2.031 2021
2022
India | 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
Republic of India
Records
63
Source