Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.94544073 1960
5.93555677 1961
5.9170193 1962
5.8843387 1963
5.82865405 1964
5.7493293 1965
5.66135316 1966
5.5599852 1967
5.45089549 1968
5.35689725 1969
5.2611379 1970
5.16071856 1971
5.06143628 1972
4.96460818 1973
4.84945215 1974
4.74930456 1975
4.65730153 1976
4.56475378 1977
4.47540302 1978
4.36691567 1979
4.2594147 1980
4.15846267 1981
4.05554712 1982
3.95196282 1983
3.85438325 1984
3.75917218 1985
3.6638379 1986
3.56902355 1987
3.47349015 1988
3.39365449 1989
3.31281844 1990
3.23668552 1991
3.1593704 1992
3.09960909 1993
3.03359893 1994
2.96909073 1995
2.89588403 1996
2.8269628 1997
2.76399644 1998
2.70319935 1999
2.63801861 2000
2.57275204 2001
2.50861348 2002
2.44589985 2003
2.4092722 2004
2.3721143 2005
2.32954561 2006
2.2876837 2007
2.25091637 2008
2.226587 2009
2.20271731 2010
2.18196804 2011
2.14994345 2012
2.1235148 2013
2.10548015 2014
2.08113981 2015
2.02995945 2016
2.01057762 2017
1.98301624 2018
1.93425932 2019
1.89473987 2020
1.86402245 2021
2022
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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
Latin America & the Caribbean (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source