Least developed countries: UN classification | 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
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Least developed countries: UN classification
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Least developed countries: UN classification | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.64079381 1960
6.66249301 1961
6.68248859 1962
6.6876353 1963
6.69972673 1964
6.70808409 1965
6.71616487 1966
6.73195993 1967
6.74102295 1968
6.74668282 1969
6.75976801 1970
6.76541163 1971
6.76363873 1972
6.74153347 1973
6.72197556 1974
6.69625454 1975
6.67123025 1976
6.64442837 1977
6.6386619 1978
6.63676081 1979
6.62079522 1980
6.59134284 1981
6.55299597 1982
6.49948026 1983
6.45088937 1984
6.3826799 1985
6.29900485 1986
6.21552631 1987
6.12241653 1988
6.04917195 1989
5.96537846 1990
5.87239256 1991
5.78670433 1992
5.71004363 1993
5.64632076 1994
5.56452536 1995
5.48459636 1996
5.43027935 1997
5.35234635 1998
5.2815057 1999
5.21192296 2000
5.15015687 2001
5.09419583 2002
5.03036142 2003
4.96447105 2004
4.89694976 2005
4.83570114 2006
4.77372711 2007
4.70838279 2008
4.64465274 2009
4.57284345 2010
4.50178802 2011
4.43087406 2012
4.37603461 2013
4.32035553 2014
4.2686708 2015
4.22124304 2016
4.16488151 2017
4.12241951 2018
4.08355322 2019
4.03388238 2020
3.9836655 2021
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Least developed countries: UN classification | 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
Least developed countries: UN classification
Records
63
Source