Fertility in Portugal

This page gives information of type fertility about the country Portugal.
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Data sources

Some data on this page comes from the Human Fertility Database (website www.humanfertility.org) (data downloaded March 11, 2014, last updated by HFD October 31, 2011). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the government of Portugal. You can download the data yourself here. Details about the modalities of data collection are available here. Where available, we use HFD data because of its higher reliability.

Period fertility

Further information: period fertility in Portugal

Year	Crude birth rate (CBR) (births per 1000 people)	CBR minus previous year's CBR	Total fertility rate (TFR) (sum of all age-specific fertility rates) ballpark for replacement fertility is 2.1	TFR minus previous year's TFR	TFR40	TFR40 minus previous year's TFR40
1940	24.39		3.203		2.887
1941	23.78	-0.61	3.112	-0.091	2.821	-0.066
1942	24.05	0.27	3.143	0.031	2.849	0.028
1943	25.22	1.17	3.289	0.146	2.983	0.134
1944	25.41	0.19	3.317	0.028	3.005	0.022
1945	26.14	0.73	3.407	0.09	3.096	0.091
1946	25.47	-0.67	3.316	-0.091	3.013	-0.083
1947	24.58	-0.89	3.192	-0.124	2.907	-0.106
1948	26.78	2.2	3.482	0.29	3.165	0.258
1949	25.43	-1.35	3.306	-0.176	3.001	-0.164
1950	24.37	-1.06	3.156	-0.15	2.87	-0.131
1951	24.53	0.16	3.173	0.017	2.884	0.014
1952	24.78	0.25	3.203	0.03	2.906	0.022
1953	23.57	-1.21	3.043	-0.16	2.773	-0.133
1954	22.91	-0.66	2.963	-0.08	2.703	-0.07
1955	24.2	1.29	3.144	0.181	2.867	0.164
1956	23.27	-0.93	3.021	-0.123	2.765	-0.102
1957	24.18	0.91	3.138	0.117	2.882	0.117
1958	24.15	-0.03	3.148	0.01	2.895	0.013
1959	24.08	-0.07	3.15	0.002	2.904	0.009
1960	24.08	0	3.159	0.009	2.922	0.018
1961	24.45	0.37	3.224	0.065	2.99	0.068
1962	24.73	0.28	3.287	0.063	3.051	0.061
1963	23.82	-0.91	3.196	-0.091	2.967	-0.084
1964	24.39	0.57	3.308	0.112	3.075	0.108
1965	23.63	-0.76	3.245	-0.063	3.023	-0.052
1966	23.3	-0.33	3.24	-0.005	3.022	-0.001
1967	22.82	-0.48	3.212	-0.028	2.997	-0.025
1968	22.1	-0.72	3.147	-0.065	2.943	-0.054
1969	21.64	-0.46	3.111	-0.036	2.911	-0.032
1970	20.81	-0.83	3.001	-0.11	2.82	-0.091
1971	20.83	0.02	3	-0.001	2.819	-0.001
1972	19.78	-1.05	2.835	-0.165	2.668	-0.151
1973	19.24	-0.54	2.747	-0.088	2.579	-0.089
1974	18.94	-0.3	2.693	-0.054	2.538	-0.041
1975	19.52	0.58	2.756	0.063	2.61	0.072
1976	20.01	0.49	2.799	0.043	2.668	0.058
1977	19.14	-0.87	2.677	-0.122	2.558	-0.11
1978	17.48	-1.66	2.445	-0.232	2.341	-0.217
1979	16.55	-0.93	2.313	-0.132	2.221	-0.12
1980	16.18	-0.37	2.253	-0.06	2.167	-0.054
1981	15.43	-0.75	2.138	-0.115	2.062	-0.105
1982	15.26	-0.17	2.094	-0.044	2.028	-0.034
1983	14.54	-0.72	1.979	-0.115	1.918	-0.11
1984	14.35	-0.19	1.941	-0.038	1.887	-0.031
1985	13.1	-1.25	1.765	-0.176	1.716	-0.171
1986	12.72	-0.38	1.709	-0.056	1.664	-0.052
1987	12.36	-0.36	1.662	-0.047	1.621	-0.043
1988	12.26	-0.1	1.648	-0.014	1.61	-0.011
1989	11.91	-0.35	1.602	-0.046	1.569	-0.041
1990	11.72	-0.19	1.577	-0.025	1.546	-0.023
1991	11.72	0	1.573	-0.004	1.542	-0.004
1992	11.53	-0.19	1.539	-0.034	1.51	-0.032
1993	11.37	-0.16	1.509	-0.03	1.481	-0.029
1994	10.84	-0.53	1.433	-0.076	1.405	-0.076
1995	10.58	-0.26	1.394	-0.039	1.366	-0.039
1996	10.84	0.26	1.426	0.032	1.399	0.033
1997	11.05	0.21	1.454	0.028	1.425	0.026
1998	11.05	0	1.455	0.001	1.427	0.002
1999	11.26	0.21	1.486	0.031	1.454	0.027
2000	11.61	0.35	1.537	0.051	1.502	0.048
2001	10.9	-0.71	1.448	-0.089	1.413	-0.089
2002	11.03	0.13	1.468	0.02	1.432	0.019
2003	10.77	-0.26	1.438	-0.03	1.401	-0.031
2004	10.41	-0.36	1.397	-0.041	1.358	-0.043
2005	10.37	-0.04	1.401	0.004	1.362	0.004
2006	9.96	-0.41	1.357	-0.044	1.316	-0.046
2007	9.66	-0.3	1.329	-0.028	1.291	-0.025
2008	9.85	0.19	1.37	0.041	1.328	0.037
2009	9.36	-0.49	1.319	-0.051	1.276	-0.052
Maximum	26.78	2.2	3.482	0.29	3.165	0.258
Minimum	9.36	-1.66	1.319	-0.232	1.276	-0.217
Average (arithmetic mean)	18.1791428571	-0.217826087	2.4428857143	-0.0273043478	2.2910714286	-0.0233478261
Geometric mean	17.1288057164		2.3055773604		2.1805430641
Median	19.38	-0.26	2.7515	-0.034	2.5945	-0.031
Standard deviation	5.9756961253	0.6514663766	0.7847110895	0.0883499566	0.6823376766	0.0814543947
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.2819980754	-0.0033354037	-0.0361705188	-0.0004651809	-0.031046925	-0.0005359883
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.9833792757		0.9839157647		0.985287777
$R^{2}$ for linear regression	0.9223386799	-0.102716295	0.8799642683	-0.1056327131	0.8574595147	-0.1320151392

Completed fertility

Further information: completed fertility in Portugal

Cohort	Completed cohort fertility (CCF)	CCF minus previous year's CCF	CCF40	CCF40 minus previous year's CCF40
1925	2.98		2.774
1926	2.985	0.005	2.785	0.011
1927	2.963	-0.022	2.769	-0.016
1928	2.966	0.003	2.778	0.009
1929	2.964	-0.002	2.786	0.008
1930	2.925	-0.039	2.763	-0.023
1931	2.955	0.03	2.796	0.033
1932	2.949	-0.006	2.795	-0.001
1933	2.923	-0.026	2.781	-0.014
1934	2.91	-0.013	2.78	-0.001
1935	2.876	-0.034	2.762	-0.018
1936	2.864	-0.012	2.761	-0.001
1937	2.847	-0.017	2.757	-0.004
1938	2.857	0.01	2.775	0.018
1939	2.801	-0.056	2.725	-0.05
1940	2.663	-0.138	2.598	-0.127
1941	2.606	-0.057	2.548	-0.05
1942	2.549	-0.057	2.497	-0.051
1943	2.528	-0.021	2.48	-0.017
1944	2.496	-0.032	2.452	-0.028
1945	2.406	-0.09	2.366	-0.086
1946	2.349	-0.057	2.313	-0.053
1947	2.257	-0.092	2.227	-0.086
1948	2.206	-0.051	2.175	-0.052
1949	2.128	-0.078	2.099	-0.076
1950	2.095	-0.033	2.064	-0.035
1951	2.072	-0.023	2.044	-0.02
1952	2.058	-0.014	2.03	-0.014
1953	2.035	-0.023	2.007	-0.023
1954	2.031	-0.004	2.003	-0.004
1955	2.045	0.014	2.016	0.013
1956	2.034	-0.011	2.004	-0.012
1957	2	-0.034	1.97	-0.034
1958	1.992	-0.008	1.961	-0.009
1959	1.954	-0.038	1.92	-0.041
1960	unavailable		1.884	-0.036
1961	unavailable		1.853	-0.031
1962	unavailable		1.869	0.016
1963	unavailable		1.817	-0.052
1964	unavailable		1.811	-0.006
1965	unavailable		1.793	-0.018
1966	unavailable		1.778	-0.015
1967	unavailable		1.756	-0.022
1968	unavailable		1.702	-0.054
1969	unavailable		1.663	-0.039

Other fertility data

• Tempo-adjusted total fertility rate in Portugal tabulates the tempo-adjusted total fertility rate as computed via the Bongaarts-Feeney formula.