Virgin Islands (U.S.) | 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
Virgin Islands of the United States
Records
63
Source
Virgin Islands (U.S.) | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
1960 5.445
1961 4.893
1962 4.929
1963 4.648
1964 5.016
1965 5.113
1966 4.568
1967 4.866
1968 4.744
1969 4.667
1970 5.127
1971 4.898
1972 4.639
1973 4.142
1974 3.863
1975 3.627
1976 3.424
1977 3.268
1978 3.304
1979 3.025
1980 3.094
1981 2.89
1982 2.952
1983 2.996
1984 2.847
1985 2.821
1986 2.74
1987 2.845
1988 2.804
1989 2.95
1990 2.99
1991 3.102
1992 3.204
1993 3.096
1994 3.044
1995 2.717
1996 2.559
1997 2.727
1998 2.501
1999 2.377
2000 2.06
2001 1.9
2002 2.21
2003 2.07
2004 2.17
2005 2.24
2006 2.03
2007 2.51
2008 2.44
2009 2.37
2010 2.3
2011 2.16
2012 2.06
2013 2.08
2014 2.09
2015 2.11
2016 2.09
2017 2.08
2018 2.06
2019 2.05
2020 2.03
2021 2.01
2022

Virgin Islands (U.S.) | 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
Virgin Islands of the United States
Records
63
Source