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