Global Fertility Rates (1950 - 2025)

Source: United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024), World Population Prospects 2024 - Standard projections, medium variant. Total Fertility Rate (live births per woman) extracted from the “Demographic Indicators, 1950-2100” CSV file for the years 1950, 1975, 2000 and 2025; downloaded from https://population.un.org/wpp on 2025-07-13. Each dot in the figure represents one country's TFR; the dashed line marks the replacement-level threshold of 2.1 children per woman.