Mozambique | 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
Republic of Mozambique
Records
63
Source
Mozambique | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 6.315
1961 6.379
1962 6.446
1963 6.492
1964 6.517
1965 6.546
1966 6.592
1967 6.625
1968 6.668
1969 6.708
1970 6.717
1971 6.721
1972 6.739
1973 6.73
1974 6.712
1975 6.693
1976 6.664
1977 6.643
1978 6.61
1979 6.577
1980 6.515
1981 6.457
1982 6.403
1983 6.391
1984 6.401
1985 6.377
1986 6.364
1987 6.34
1988 6.304
1989 6.275
1990 6.221
1991 6.159
1992 6.099
1993 6.025
1994 5.958
1995 5.895
1996 5.85
1997 5.885
1998 5.86
1999 5.833
2000 5.812
2001 5.778
2002 5.734
2003 5.733
2004 5.667
2005 5.609
2006 5.55
2007 5.513
2008 5.579
2009 5.626
2010 5.63
2011 5.551
2012 5.451
2013 5.34
2014 5.131
2015 5.062
2016 4.992
2017 4.922
2018 4.852
2019 4.783
2020 4.713
2021 4.644
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Mozambique | 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
Republic of Mozambique
Records
63
Source