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