World Development Indicators
Fertility rates around the world
Compare published World Bank total fertility rate, in births per woman. It is the average number of children a woman would have if current age-specific fertility rates continued through her life.
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Source
Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators, Fertility rate, total (births per woman) (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN), CC BY 4.0. LifeNaviHub reproduces the published values and does not invent missing observations.
Fertility rate, total (births per woman) · SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
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Methodology
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.
Upstream sources named by the World Bank
World Population Prospects, United Nations (UN), publisher: UN Population Division; Statistical databases and publications from national statistical offices, National Statistical Offices (NSOs); Demographic Statistics, Eurostat (ESTAT)
Total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would be expected to have if the age-specific fertility rates of the current year continued through her childbearing years. The unit is births per woman. World Bank World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN).