Total fertility rate of Afghanistan 1925-2020

From 1925 until 2000 the fertility rate of Afghanistan fluctuated between seven and 7.7 children per women, before dropping drastically by 2020. The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. Although the graph shows a constant fertility rate during the second half of the twentieth century, this is likely due to the lack of data from reliable sources, rather than a real trend. From 2000 onwards the fertility rate has dropped by more than three children per woman, and today it is 4.6. This decline can be attributed to a reduction in infant and child mortality, and increased use of contraceptives; usage more than doubled since 2003, although roughly three quarters of Afghan couples still do not use any contraceptive method.