Zambia - Wanted fertility rate

Wanted fertility rate (births per woman)

The value for Wanted fertility rate (births per woman) in Zambia was 4.00 as of 2018. As the graph below shows, over the past 26 years this indicator reached a maximum value of 5.40 in 1992 and a minimum value of 4.00 in 2018.

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.

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Year Value
1992 5.40
1996 5.20
2002 4.90
2007 5.20
2014 4.50
2018 4.00

Classification

Topic: Health Indicators

Sub-Topic: Reproductive health