Samoa | 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
Independent State of Samoa
Records
63
Source
Samoa | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
7.646 1960
7.641 1961
7.646 1962
7.656 1963
7.667 1964
7.651 1965
7.625 1966
7.612 1967
7.592 1968
7.547 1969
7.459 1970
7.337 1971
7.182 1972
7.024 1973
6.847 1974
6.679 1975
6.529 1976
6.378 1977
6.229 1978
6.083 1979
5.925 1980
5.784 1981
5.661 1982
5.531 1983
5.417 1984
5.344 1985
5.286 1986
5.19 1987
5.089 1988
4.99 1989
4.93 1990
4.892 1991
4.888 1992
4.874 1993
4.85 1994
4.802 1995
4.739 1996
4.66 1997
4.609 1998
4.555 1999
4.514 2000
4.465 2001
4.429 2002
4.4 2003
4.382 2004
4.374 2005
4.373 2006
4.391 2007
4.469 2008
4.549 2009
4.608 2010
4.639 2011
4.606 2012
4.525 2013
4.443 2014
4.357 2015
4.269 2016
4.183 2017
4.109 2018
4.047 2019
3.997 2020
3.93 2021
2022
Samoa | 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
Independent State of Samoa
Records
63
Source