South Africa | 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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source
| year |
value
Min
Max
|
|---|---|
| 1960 | 6.446 |
| 1961 | 6.391 |
| 1962 | 6.317 |
| 1963 | 6.224 |
| 1964 | 6.118 |
| 1965 | 6.004 |
| 1966 | 5.892 |
| 1967 | 5.791 |
| 1968 | 5.705 |
| 1969 | 5.634 |
| 1970 | 5.576 |
| 1971 | 5.525 |
| 1972 | 5.471 |
| 1973 | 5.408 |
| 1974 | 5.335 |
| 1975 | 5.251 |
| 1976 | 5.159 |
| 1977 | 5.064 |
| 1978 | 4.969 |
| 1979 | 4.877 |
| 1980 | 4.786 |
| 1981 | 4.695 |
| 1982 | 4.602 |
| 1983 | 4.504 |
| 1984 | 4.402 |
| 1985 | 4.293 |
| 1986 | 4.177 |
| 1987 | 4.052 |
| 1988 | 3.923 |
| 1989 | 3.791 |
| 1990 | 3.658 |
| 1991 | 3.53 |
| 1992 | 3.408 |
| 1993 | 3.296 |
| 1994 | 3.196 |
| 1995 | 3.11 |
| 1996 | 3.04 |
| 1997 | 2.983 |
| 1998 | 2.937 |
| 1999 | 2.899 |
| 2000 | 2.866 |
| 2001 | 2.835 |
| 2002 | 2.801 |
| 2003 | 2.764 |
| 2004 | 2.722 |
| 2005 | 2.676 |
| 2006 | 2.628 |
| 2007 | 2.58 |
| 2008 | 2.536 |
| 2009 | 2.495 |
| 2010 | 2.458 |
| 2011 | 2.425 |
| 2012 |
South Africa | 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 current age-specific fertility rates. Limitations and exceptions: Annual data series are interpolated from 5-year period data. Therefore they may not reflect real events as much as observed data.
Publisher
The World Bank
Origin
Republic of South Africa
Records
53
Source