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
Middle income
Records
63
Source
Middle income | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
5.22310293 1960
5.04814815 1961
5.72900053 1962
6.14965472 1963
5.88693781 1964
5.84453256 1965
5.7268594 1966
5.54527277 1967
5.72481213 1968
5.59377009 1969
5.53802629 1970
5.33691076 1971
5.17226142 1972
5.01112439 1973
4.79301619 1974
4.55846988 1975
4.41894232 1976
4.24606111 1977
4.15488899 1978
4.11863597 1979
4.07936522 1980
4.05046186 1981
4.06933632 1982
3.89799327 1983
3.86176657 1984
3.80476261 1985
3.78558085 1986
3.74123259 1987
3.60847451 1988
3.54024909 1989
3.4782946 1990
3.24119006 1991
3.12860425 1992
3.04288821 1993
2.97288429 1994
2.90750031 1995
2.8450895 1996
2.78990568 1997
2.74415752 1998
2.70726528 1999
2.71071919 2000
2.66745579 2001
2.63347327 2002
2.59899144 2003
2.5842496 2004
2.55940014 2005
2.53886463 2006
2.53105403 2007
2.52761188 2008
2.51449312 2009
2.48519772 2010
2.46253111 2011
2.48182224 2012
2.44305521 2013
2.43115023 2014
2.39432759 2015
2.39907536 2016
2.37688088 2017
2.30099375 2018
2.25712037 2019
2.18574635 2020
2.14871336 2021
2022
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
Middle income
Records
63
Source