Liberia | 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 Liberia
Records
63
Source
Liberia | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.391 1960
6.446 1961
6.504 1962
6.556 1963
6.585 1964
6.617 1965
6.628 1966
6.65 1967
6.657 1968
6.644 1969
6.578 1970
6.542 1971
6.599 1972
6.651 1973
6.691 1974
6.744 1975
6.793 1976
6.841 1977
6.884 1978
6.919 1979
6.872 1980
6.834 1981
6.788 1982
6.76 1983
6.728 1984
6.693 1985
6.638 1986
6.572 1987
6.507 1988
6.434 1989
6.37 1990
6.323 1991
6.277 1992
6.246 1993
6.21 1994
6.173 1995
6.129 1996
6.079 1997
6.017 1998
5.953 1999
5.875 2000
5.774 2001
5.653 2002
5.547 2003
5.506 2004
5.519 2005
5.53 2006
5.462 2007
5.328 2008
5.174 2009
5.058 2010
4.97 2011
4.881 2012
4.749 2013
4.622 2014
4.523 2015
4.461 2016
4.396 2017
4.336 2018
4.257 2019
4.174 2020
4.089 2021
2022
Liberia | 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 Liberia
Records
63
Source