Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source
Lower middle income | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.03405371
1961 6.01932153
1962 6.06277026
1963 6.06991712
1964 6.06646674
1965 6.04182294
1966 6.00044039
1967 5.96478155
1968 5.92758664
1969 5.88410861
1970 5.84889654
1971 5.81243419
1972 5.75698584
1973 5.69997378
1974 5.63893454
1975 5.55693993
1976 5.50716386
1977 5.42624391
1978 5.36033654
1979 5.31100553
1980 5.273656
1981 5.2115204
1982 5.14968972
1983 5.09185692
1984 5.02747064
1985 4.93684529
1986 4.86725392
1987 4.76890407
1988 4.67068861
1989 4.57335832
1990 4.47757988
1991 4.37996424
1992 4.27698086
1993 4.17086677
1994 4.07072362
1995 3.97169511
1996 3.87617764
1997 3.79405144
1998 3.71555068
1999 3.65006197
2000 3.6056271
2001 3.55850663
2002 3.49536036
2003 3.42422278
2004 3.36417402
2005 3.29816626
2006 3.23821419
2007 3.19464672
2008 3.15325112
2009 3.11643052
2010 3.06590174
2011 3.01742722
2012 2.97796489
2013 2.94282141
2014 2.88331595
2015 2.86007797
2016 2.83062932
2017 2.77762342
2018 2.75046187
2019 2.69883428
2020 2.6561997
2021 2.63227064
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Lower 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
Lower middle income
Records
63
Source