About this data

Source: World Bank, World Development Indicators (from national statistical offices and Eurostat); UK: ONS, NRS and NISRA

• 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.
• The UK figures are the official ones shown elsewhere on this page. The World Bank's figures for the UK are UN estimates (1.56 in 2023), well above the rate from births registrations (1.41).

This chart appears in Births and fertility rates.