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