Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source
Low & middle income | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.301134 1960
5.13664989 1961
5.77693397 1962
6.17344247 1963
5.9282858 1964
5.88994728 1965
5.78250034 1966
5.61644579 1967
5.78492045 1968
5.66333142 1969
5.6120104 1970
5.42382433 1971
5.27111372 1972
5.1168506 1973
4.91190899 1974
4.69251699 1975
4.56158356 1976
4.40023369 1977
4.31528172 1978
4.28171793 1979
4.24334772 1980
4.21410438 1981
4.22996676 1982
4.06870457 1983
4.03450156 1984
3.98063074 1985
3.9619336 1986
3.91925706 1987
3.79263356 1988
3.72673193 1989
3.66656956 1990
3.44248183 1991
3.33634388 1992
3.25573249 1993
3.18958629 1994
3.1276411 1995
3.06649656 1996
3.01264465 1997
2.96781896 1998
2.93201814 1999
2.93349099 2000
2.89190815 2001
2.85943049 2002
2.82650798 2003
2.81187769 2004
2.78776147 2005
2.76846756 2006
2.76068543 2007
2.75671973 2008
2.74350288 2009
2.71395729 2010
2.69053166 2011
2.70576965 2012
2.66828001 2013
2.65553574 2014
2.62057333 2015
2.6238635 2016
2.6023114 2017
2.53286875 2018
2.49324206 2019
2.42780908 2020
2.39313984 2021
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Low & middle 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 & middle income
Records
63
Source