Total fertility rate vs cohort fertility rate vs tempo adjusted tfr by country

Countries reporting
34
Highest
1.82
Czechia
Lowest
0.722
South Korea
Median
1.48
Years covered
134
1891–2024
Data points
2,331

What the numbers show

Total fertility rate vs cohort fertility rate vs tempo adjusted tfr is currently reported for 34 countries. The highest value is 1.82 in Czechia; the lowest is 0.722 in South Korea.

The median across all reporting countries is 1.48, and the mean is 1.43.

The gap between the highest and lowest reporting country is a factor of about 3.

Over the past decade 9 countries rose and 25 fell. The largest increase was in Ukraine (up 28.8%), and the largest decrease in South Korea (down 39.1%).

Total fertility rate vs cohort fertility rate vs tempo adjusted tfr: full country ranking

#Country LatestYear 10-year changeTrend
1 Czechia 1.82 2021 up 27.5% falling
2 France 1.76 2022 down 11.8% falling
3 Estonia 1.66 2019 down 2.4% falling
4 United States 1.62 2023 down 12.4% falling
5 Slovenia 1.61 2019 up 5.1% flat
6 Iceland 1.59 2023 down 20.3% falling
7 Russia 1.58 2018 up 5.1% falling
8 Bulgaria 1.58 2021 up 5.3% falling
9 Germany 1.57 2017 up 12.3% falling
10 Hungary 1.56 2020 up 25.0% falling
11 Ireland 1.53 2022 down 22.6% falling
12 Belgium 1.53 2022 down 14.4% falling
13 Ukraine 1.51 2013 up 28.8% falling
14 Slovakia 1.5 2014 up 20.3% falling
15 Netherlands 1.49 2022 down 13.7% falling
16 Croatia 1.48 2020 down 4.3% flat
17 United Kingdom 1.48 2022 down 22.5% falling
18 Lithuania 1.48 2020 down 1.5% falling
19 Denmark 1.47 2024 down 13.4% falling
20 Chile 1.46 2020 down 25.4% falling
21 Portugal 1.45 2023 up 19.4% falling
21 Belarus 1.45 2018 down 2.7% falling
23 Sweden 1.43 2024 down 23.7% falling
24 Norway 1.41 2022 down 23.9% falling
25 Switzerland 1.33 2023 down 12.2% falling
26 Austria 1.32 2023 down 8.4% falling
27 Poland 1.26 2022 down 3.4% falling
28 Canada 1.26 2023 down 21.7% falling
29 Finland 1.25 2024 down 26.9% falling
30 Italy 1.24 2022 down 12.3% falling
31 Japan 1.2 2023 down 15.4% falling
32 Spain 1.12 2023 down 12.1% falling
33 Taiwan 0.864 2023 down 18.2% falling
34 South Korea 0.722 2023 down 39.1% falling

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Indicator
Total fertility rate vs cohort fertility rate vs tempo adjusted tfr
Source
Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
34 places, 2,331 data points, 1891–2024
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