About this data

Source: NRS, Vital Events 2025 (Table 3.17)

• The total fertility rate is the average number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if she experienced the birth rates of each age group in that year. It is a summary of a single year's birth rates, not a count of how many children women actually have.
• Areas are grouped into fifths by the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD), which ranks small areas by income, employment, health, education, housing, crime and access to services. It describes the area, not each family's income.
• No official fertility rates by household income are published for any part of the UK. ONS publishes births in England and Wales by area deprivation, but not rates.

This chart appears in Births and fertility rates.