Madagascar | 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 Madagascar
Records
63
Source
Madagascar | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 7.3
1961 7.301
1962 7.303
1963 7.305
1964 7.307
1965 7.308
1966 7.307
1967 7.304
1968 7.297
1969 7.286
1970 7.27
1971 7.248
1972 7.221
1973 7.188
1974 7.149
1975 7.102
1976 7.044
1977 6.976
1978 6.898
1979 6.813
1980 6.725
1981 6.637
1982 6.554
1983 6.477
1984 6.41
1985 6.353
1986 6.307
1987 6.287
1988 6.214
1989 6.177
1990 6.161
1991 6.122
1992 6.08
1993 6.041
1994 5.99
1995 5.946
1996 5.888
1997 5.801
1998 5.675
1999 5.549
2000 5.403
2001 5.323
2002 5.225
2003 5.172
2004 5.133
2005 5.095
2006 5.056
2007 4.997
2008 4.933
2009 4.87
2010 4.755
2011 4.607
2012 4.466
2013 4.358
2014 4.247
2015 4.183
2016 4.163
2017 4.109
2018 4.043
2019 3.978
2020 3.918
2021 3.851
2022

Madagascar | 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 Madagascar
Records
63
Source