Variable: Fertility rate, total (births per woman)

QoG Code: (wdi_fertility)


Dataset: World Development Indicators

Description:

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.

Type of variable: Continuous

Downloaded by QoG on: 2023-01-23
Last updated by source: 2023-01-22


Categories:

Civil Society/Population/Culture Gender Equality


Find this variable in:

Basic Cross-section - 2024 Basic Time-series - 2024 OECD Cross-section - 2024 OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Cross-section - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Basic cross-section: 190
Basic time-series: 200
Standard cross-section: 190
Standard time-series: 200
OECD cross-section: 38
OECD time-series: 40

Dataset Available for years:
Standard time-series: 1960-2021
Basic time-series: 1960-2021
OECD time-series: 1960-2021

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