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Fertility Rates: U.S., China and the World

Total fertility rate, births per woman

World: 2.19 in 2024the lowest in data back to 1960−2.50 since 1960

2 of 3 series are above their level a year earlier·1 of 3 is at a five-year low

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Replacement fertility is the rate at which a population holds steady without migration.

How many children a woman would have over her lifetime at current birth rates. All three lines have fallen, with China’s drop the steepest.

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Sources

World Total Fertility Rate. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN), via api.worldbank.org. CC BY 4.0.

US Total Fertility Rate. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN), via api.worldbank.org. CC BY 4.0.

China Total Fertility Rate. Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (SP.DYN.TFRT.IN), via api.worldbank.org. CC BY 4.0.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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