Wanted fertility rate

Wanted fertility rate is an estimate of what the total fertility rate would be if all unwanted births were avoided.

Publisher
World Bank
Unit
Cadence
Annual
Series
86
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Updated
2026-09-06

Provenance

Who produced these figures, as World Bank declares it — not inferred, and each line says which published field it was read from.

  1. Produced by

    Demographic & Health Surveys

    Demographic and Health Surveys

    declared by worldbank in sourceOrganization

  2. Read from

    World Bank

    World Development Indicators

    declared by worldbank in source

Latest observations

CountryPeriodValueUnit
Jordan20231.90births per woman
Mozambique20234.20births per woman
Senegal20233.60births per woman
Cambodia20222.40births per woman
Ghana20223.40births per woman
Kenya20222.90births per woman
Nepal20221.70births per woman
Philippines20221.50births per woman
Tanzania, United Republic of20224.40births per woman
Burkina Faso20214.20births per woman

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