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The replacement fertility rate is 2.1 births per female for most developed countries (2.1 in the United Kingdom, for example), but can be as high as 3.5 in undeveloped countries because of higher mortality rates, especially child mortality. [11]
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 ...
Since the early 1970s the birth rate has been below the replacement rate of 2.1 with 1.72 children per woman in 2018. [40] The drop in the U.S. fertility rate from 2.08 per woman in 2007 to 1.76 in 2017 was mostly due to the declining birth rate of Hispanics, teenagers, and young women, although the birth rate for older women rose. [41]
China’s birth rate, paralleling trends in other Asian economies, already was falling before the one-child rule. The average number of children per Chinese mother tumbled from above six in the ...
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.
Total fertility rate: 2.01 children born per woman for metropolitan France and the overseas departments (in 2012), [37] 2.00 for metropolitan France alone (in 2010). [38] Mean age of women having their first birth: 29.9 years-old. [39] The table below gives the average number of children according to the place of birth of women.
Income and fertility. Graph of total fertility rate vs. GDP (PPP) per capita of the corresponding country, 2015. [ 1] [ 2] Income and fertility is the association between monetary gain on one hand, and the tendency to produce offspring on the other. There is generally an inverse correlation between income and the total fertility rate within and ...
The one-child policy had been challenged for violating a human right to determine the size of one's own proper family. According to a 1968 proclamation of the International Conference on Human Rights, "Parents have a basic human right to determine freely and responsibly the number and the spacing of their children."