Fertility rate, total (births per woman)

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.

Data table

Year	World (births per woman)
1960	4.686
1961	4.565
1962	5.024
1963	5.314
1964	5.131
1965	5.081
1966	4.968
1967	4.866
1968	4.978
1969	4.88
1970	4.84
1971	4.689
1972	4.548
1973	4.417
1974	4.256
1975	4.073
1976	3.967
1977	3.842
1978	3.774
1979	3.756
1980	3.731
1981	3.705
1982	3.722
1983	3.595
1984	3.568
1985	3.53
1986	3.514
1987	3.482
1988	3.393
1989	3.346
1990	3.307
1991	3.126
1992	3.039
1993	2.971
1994	2.919
1995	2.866
1996	2.819
1997	2.779
1998	2.747
1999	2.721
2000	2.73
2001	2.688
2002	2.66
2003	2.638
2004	2.628
2005	2.611
2006	2.606
2007	2.602
2008	2.603
2009	2.593
2010	2.568
2011	2.548
2012	2.564
2013	2.525
2014	2.517
2015	2.49
2016	2.491
2017	2.46
2018	2.392
2019	2.353
2020	2.276
2021	2.246
2022	2.215
2023	2.196
2024	2.188

Per-source values, 2024

Caveats

Modelled WB estimates interpolate between census/survey years; DHS is survey-based and only updates at each survey round.