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