Middle East & North Africa | 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.
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The World Bank
Origin
Middle East & North Africa
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63
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Middle East & North Africa | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.95024671
1961 6.97785516
1962 7.05425605
1963 7.03431622
1964 7.00937298
1965 6.97292505
1966 6.94276924
1967 6.91020299
1968 6.86592831
1969 6.81831804
1970 6.74363295
1971 6.65795948
1972 6.56459645
1973 6.48401085
1974 6.42942236
1975 6.38564604
1976 6.36552976
1977 6.33088312
1978 6.31123057
1979 6.32103448
1980 6.25888177
1981 6.1794491
1982 6.11026648
1983 6.02585782
1984 5.91760248
1985 5.78460528
1986 5.61704564
1987 5.43376593
1988 5.24478911
1989 5.05000654
1990 4.88161346
1991 4.68575581
1992 4.50440678
1993 4.30418112
1994 4.10829735
1995 3.88935112
1996 3.68946928
1997 3.54222095
1998 3.42703965
1999 3.31982758
2000 3.2304518
2001 3.15315467
2002 3.07329738
2003 3.02420999
2004 2.97571786
2005 2.94025602
2006 2.91711265
2007 2.90613372
2008 2.88961996
2009 2.88237008
2010 2.90139208
2011 2.9201683
2012 2.95302813
2013 2.97072752
2014 2.97457052
2015 2.95174893
2016 2.87115941
2017 2.83800684
2018 2.78304853
2019 2.70035245
2020 2.66051651
2021 2.62906964
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Middle East & North Africa | 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
Middle East & North Africa
Records
63
Source