Zambia | 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
Republic of Zambia
Records
63
Source
Zambia | Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
7.115 1960
7.169 1961
7.214 1962
7.249 1963
7.274 1964
7.291 1965
7.304 1966
7.317 1967
7.332 1968
7.349 1969
7.367 1970
7.383 1971
7.392 1972
7.393 1973
7.376 1974
7.391 1975
7.366 1976
7.333 1977
7.285 1978
7.232 1979
7.154 1980
7.103 1981
7.063 1982
7.022 1983
6.977 1984
6.921 1985
6.851 1986
6.773 1987
6.675 1988
6.605 1989
6.533 1990
6.447 1991
6.364 1992
6.318 1993
6.274 1994
6.241 1995
6.183 1996
6.117 1997
6.049 1998
5.987 1999
5.926 2000
5.862 2001
5.792 2002
5.726 2003
5.715 2004
5.71 2005
5.686 2006
5.609 2007
5.537 2008
5.452 2009
5.363 2010
5.271 2011
5.146 2012
5.026 2013
4.899 2014
4.793 2015
4.707 2016
4.614 2017
4.536 2018
4.451 2019
4.379 2020
4.308 2021
2022
Zambia | 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
Republic of Zambia
Records
63
Source