Iraq | 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 Iraq
Records
63
Source
Iraq | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.3 1960
5.8 1961
6.869 1962
6.901 1963
6.928 1964
6.945 1965
6.97 1966
6.997 1967
7.046 1968
7.099 1969
7.079 1970
7.056 1971
7.008 1972
6.963 1973
6.928 1974
6.875 1975
6.814 1976
6.754 1977
6.693 1978
6.629 1979
6.567 1980
6.514 1981
6.45 1982
6.389 1983
6.326 1984
6.248 1985
6.176 1986
6.099 1987
6.018 1988
5.944 1989
5.884 1990
5.81 1991
5.72 1992
5.64 1993
5.528 1994
5.398 1995
5.285 1996
5.244 1997
5.154 1998
5.056 1999
4.948 2000
4.837 2001
4.706 2002
4.615 2003
4.575 2004
4.475 2005
4.436 2006
4.371 2007
4.342 2008
4.362 2009
4.429 2010
4.536 2011
4.477 2012
4.378 2013
4.283 2014
4.09 2015
3.9 2016
3.73 2017
3.659 2018
3.604 2019
3.551 2020
3.496 2021
2022
Iraq | 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 Iraq
Records
63
Source