Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source
Late-demographic dividend | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
4.37853001 1960
3.99887777 1961
5.28962417 1962
6.10640155 1963
5.58823109 1964
5.52409202 1965
5.32606395 1966
5.04400076 1967
5.42766671 1968
5.20694628 1969
5.13711115 1970
4.79392906 1971
4.53970591 1972
4.28376023 1973
3.92404757 1974
3.54189101 1975
3.31857895 1976
3.06063915 1977
2.95849813 1978
2.95591757 1979
2.93068737 1980
2.94424524 1981
3.04327346 1982
2.77102819 1983
2.77278034 1984
2.76084826 1985
2.79898506 1986
2.80429722 1987
2.63279506 1988
2.58884587 1989
2.55360321 1990
2.15750514 1991
2.02201357 1992
1.93382247 1993
1.87291507 1994
1.81810438 1995
1.76900564 1996
1.72882494 1997
1.70499191 1998
1.68581789 1999
1.73750235 2000
1.68606475 2001
1.68105071 2002
1.67534252 2003
1.69680187 2004
1.69904813 2005
1.7063518 2006
1.72510288 2007
1.75427723 2008
1.76197116 2009
1.74300949 2010
1.73044118 2011
1.81574326 2012
1.76128308 2013
1.80018477 2014
1.74001113 2015
1.79072197 2016
1.80582171 2017
1.6469679 2018
1.60159101 2019
1.46753872 2020
1.39694483 2021
2022
Late-demographic dividend | 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
Late-demographic dividend
Records
63
Source