Fertility rate: children per woman, 1950 to 2021

The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to thefertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.

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Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects (2022)

Note: The total fertility rate is the number of children that would be born to a woman if she were to live to the end of her child-bearing years and give birth to children at the current age-specific fertility rates.