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.
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Custom interpretation — direction alone does not say better or worse.
Measured value over time against its dashed norm. This indicator has a custom interpretation, so direction alone isn’t 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.
Sustained below-replacement fertility is the root cause feeding ageing; the driver tracks the consequences of falling TFR (lower fertility intensifies ageing).
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.
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