Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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 (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
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Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
7.00255532 1960
7.03353635 1961
7.11773546 1962
7.09753075 1963
7.07140705 1964
7.03427119 1965
7.00226196 1966
6.96856977 1967
6.92181263 1968
6.87176846 1969
6.79170629 1970
6.69981444 1971
6.59842453 1972
6.51606099 1973
6.46024634 1974
6.41434451 1975
6.39584657 1976
6.36142911 1977
6.34343492 1978
6.35825144 1979
6.29430678 1980
6.21228153 1981
6.14284597 1982
6.05772827 1983
5.94735961 1984
5.81201964 1985
5.63950947 1986
5.45121585 1987
5.25712144 1988
5.05580575 1989
4.86487946 1990
4.66220001 1991
4.47699319 1992
4.26622319 1993
4.05825705 1994
3.83064553 1995
3.62080827 1996
3.47084686 1997
3.3568222 1998
3.25230119 1999
3.16488465 2000
3.09642753 2001
3.02408446 2002
2.9839841 2003
2.94443824 2004
2.91632216 2005
2.89655315 2006
2.89111698 2007
2.88503795 2008
2.88947796 2009
2.92061429 2010
2.94951342 2011
2.99209634 2012
3.01941581 2013
3.02879445 2014
3.00708919 2015
2.91941142 2016
2.8835909 2017
2.82632753 2018
2.73786527 2019
2.6957974 2020
2.66082324 2021
2022
Middle East & North Africa (IDA & IBRD countries) | 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 (IDA & IBRD countries)
Records
63
Source