Low income | 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
Low income
Records
63
Source
Low income | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.47203157
1961 6.44916887
1962 6.48219023
1963 6.52151096
1964 6.53066144
1965 6.55077621
1966 6.59393473
1967 6.65882756
1968 6.66912035
1969 6.6909119
1970 6.71036057
1971 6.72006881
1972 6.75217425
1973 6.70506909
1974 6.69448399
1975 6.69501235
1976 6.68521341
1977 6.69523524
1978 6.70682697
1979 6.71626356
1980 6.70653631
1981 6.69394007
1982 6.67001803
1983 6.65925041
1984 6.65352726
1985 6.64451725
1986 6.63198897
1987 6.61042296
1988 6.57211781
1989 6.53450244
1990 6.49588123
1991 6.45755673
1992 6.42196674
1993 6.38810462
1994 6.35207666
1995 6.31394616
1996 6.25220284
1997 6.20328013
1998 6.15114806
1999 6.09987612
2000 6.04324324
2001 5.99172602
2002 5.93383385
2003 5.87133028
2004 5.81058026
2005 5.74629019
2006 5.68448188
2007 5.61600574
2008 5.54896167
2009 5.47998638
2010 5.39455924
2011 5.30945233
2012 5.2271043
2013 5.15586865
2014 5.08639041
2015 5.02239352
2016 4.95723316
2017 4.888083
2018 4.82612323
2019 4.76624551
2020 4.69590622
2021 4.62459078
2022
Low income | 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
Low income
Records
63
Source