Guatemala - Wanted fertility rate

Wanted fertility rate (births per woman)

The value for Wanted fertility rate (births per woman) in Guatemala was 2.60 as of 2015. As the graph below shows, over the past 28 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 4.40 in 1987 and a minimum value of 2.60 in 2015.

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

Source: Demographic and Health Surveys.

See also:

Year Value
1987 4.40
1995 4.00
1999 4.10
2002 3.70
2009 2.90
2015 2.60

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health