Statistical Terms
Fertility rate, total
- Topic
- Population
- Definition
- 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.
- Source
- ( 1 ) United Nations Population Division. World Population Prospects: 2019 Revision, or derived from male and female life expectancy at birth from sources such as: ( 2 ) Census reports and other statistical publications from national statistical offices, ( 3 ) United Nations Statistical Division. Population and Vital Statistics Report ( various years )
- Periodicity
- Annual
- Temporal Coverage
- 1999-2019
- Note
- Relevance to gender indicator: it can indicate the status of women within households and a woman’s decision about the number and spacing of children.