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Nonetheless, fewer children were born per family; the average decreased from 2.24 in 1950 to 1.7 in the 1980s. Large families were infrequent, with only 2% having four or more children, while 51% had a single child; 38% had two children, and 9% had three children. [11]
The global average for the replacement total fertility rate, eventually leading to a stable global population, for the contemporary period, 2010–2015, is 2.3 children per female. [9] [10] Comparison ranking lists:
The fertility rate equals the expected number of children born per woman in her child ... Finland: 3.00 2.77 2.66 2.19 1.62 ... Fertility rate per woman Region ...
Country Current Population Number In Household Households % 1 Member % 2-3 Members % 4-5 Members % 6+ Members Year China 1,409,778,724: 2.80: 482,427,212: 17.84
The birth rate is 7.8 per 1,000 residents, for a fertility rate of 1.26 children born per woman, [213] one of the lowest in the world, significantly below the replacement rate of 2.1. In 1887 Finland recorded its highest rate, 5.17 children born per woman. [214] Finland has one of the oldest populations in the world, with a median age of 42.6 ...
A 2023 map of countries by fertility rate. Blue indicates negative fertility rates. Red indicates positive rates. The total fertility rate (TFR) of a population is the average number of children that are born to a woman over her lifetime, if they were to experience the exact current age-specific fertility rates (ASFRs) through their lifetime, and they were to live from birth until the end of ...
The following list sorts sovereign states and dependent territories and by the total number of births. Figures are from the 2024 revision of the United Nations World Population Prospects report, for the calendar year 2023.
The rate of natural change (births as opposed to deaths) was negative for the European Union as a whole in 2022: the population declined by 0.1 per cent per year without net migration. Of the most populous countries, particularly Italy (over -0.5 per cent) and Germany (roughly -0.4 per cent) saw a large natural population decrease.