South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.07844288 1960
6.09446597 1961
6.10985878 1962
6.11992924 1963
6.12632293 1964
6.09301245 1965
6.04317656 1966
6.0015787 1967
5.94769206 1968
5.88562901 1969
5.8372965 1970
5.78675959 1971
5.71719729 1972
5.64934879 1973
5.58540734 1974
5.47909532 1975
5.42336406 1976
5.31975517 1977
5.22122093 1978
5.15040955 1979
5.11213309 1980
5.04068758 1981
4.96170637 1982
4.89398866 1983
4.83776991 1984
4.75201098 1985
4.70020948 1986
4.60702504 1987
4.51263053 1988
4.42343163 1989
4.3318883 1990
4.23610241 1991
4.14574416 1992
4.06274444 1993
3.98811443 1994
3.90590699 1995
3.83006445 1996
3.76194246 1997
3.68631602 1998
3.61870984 1999
3.57222408 2000
3.51554776 2001
3.43226817 2002
3.33920518 2003
3.25804645 2004
3.1669544 2005
3.07374585 2006
2.99959187 2007
2.92963295 2008
2.8777459 2009
2.80760182 2010
2.7427881 2011
2.67834838 2012
2.62133191 2013
2.53000843 2014
2.49836592 2015
2.47518536 2016
2.40613053 2017
2.37934101 2018
2.320116 2019
2.26709778 2020
2.24093002 2021
2022
South Asia (IDA & IBRD) | 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
South Asia (IDA & IBRD)
Records
63
Source