Big Families, Small Families — Data Stories
Children per woman in the countries with the highest rates, from 1950 to 2023. The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman has in her life.
Big Families, Small Families
Children per woman in the countries with the highest rates, from 1950 to 2023
What can we learn?
- The fertility rate is the average number of children a woman has in her life. In 1950, women in the top countries had more than seven children on average.
- Today the highest rates are around six children per woman: lower than the top rates in 1950.
- Across the world families became smaller as children survived more often, girls stayed in school for longer and more people moved to cities.
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