demography

Total fertility rate (births per woman, world)

Name: Total fertility rate (births per woman, world)
Creator: Factrail

Average number of children a woman would bear over her lifetime at current age-specific fertility rates, worldwide. A core demographic indicator; falling fertility below the 2.1 replacement level drives population ageing and structural labour-supply pressure.

current value2.2births per woman

No better/worse readingInsufficient history

GlobalNo better/worse readingimportance: 0.80unit: births per woman0 active driversUpdated Dec 2024

How to read it

This indicator has a custom interpretation: above or below the normal line is not, by itself, better or worse.

Indicator & its drivers over time

Insufficient history — only one observation, so there is no trend yet.

Measured value over time against its dashed normal line. This indicator has a custom interpretation, so above or below the normal line isn’t, by itself, better or worse.

Each driver linked to this indicator, strongest pull first, on the same timeline above. Markers are the facts that moved that driver. These are modelled influences — treat them as correlational unless a documented causal edge is shown.

No drivers are linked to this indicator yet.

Fact markers
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Causal network

No mapped relationship chain yet

Factrail hasn’t mapped a verified causal chain for this indicator yet. This reflects the relationships currently captured in the graph.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed 30 June 2026