macro
US Total Fertility Rate
Latest
1.63births per woman
Methodology
## What this measures
Total fertility rate for the United States: births per woman over a lifetime at current age-specific rates.
## Why it matters
Replacement is about 2.1. The US has been below replacement since 2008 and has set new lows in most years since.
## How to read it
Annual, dated December 31 of the reference year. Compare countries by trend, not by single years.
## What it does not say
Annual and published with a lag; the quarterly CDC general fertility rate (demography.cdc.general_fertility_rate) arrives sooner.
## Source
World Bank, World Development Indicators (`SP.DYN.TFRT.IN`), via api.worldbank.org. CC BY 4.0.
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