Tonga | 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
Kingdom of Tonga
Records
63
Source
Tonga | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
6.885 1960
6.844 1961
6.804 1962
6.774 1963
6.734 1964
6.662 1965
6.596 1966
6.59 1967
6.371 1968
6.15 1969
5.941 1970
5.761 1971
5.616 1972
5.512 1973
5.449 1974
5.426 1975
5.438 1976
5.471 1977
5.509 1978
5.541 1979
5.553 1980
5.532 1981
5.475 1982
5.385 1983
5.266 1984
5.128 1985
4.989 1986
4.864 1987
4.763 1988
4.691 1989
4.644 1990
4.612 1991
4.583 1992
4.547 1993
4.501 1994
4.447 1995
4.433 1996
4.369 1997
4.328 1998
4.203 1999
4.108 2000
4.072 2001
4.137 2002
4.194 2003
4.206 2004
4.179 2005
4.141 2006
4.093 2007
4.027 2008
3.955 2009
3.889 2010
3.842 2011
3.781 2012
3.707 2013
3.635 2014
3.562 2015
3.483 2016
3.407 2017
3.349 2018
3.315 2019
3.267 2020
3.237 2021
2022

Tonga | 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
Kingdom of Tonga
Records
63
Source