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