Fertility in Germany

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

Most of the data on this page comes from the Human Fertility Database (website www.humanfertility.org) (data downloaded January 2014, last updated April 2013). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the German government. Details about the modalities of data collection are available here.

Key quantitative metrics

Metric	Most recent measurement, along with year and source	Extreme values, along with year and source
crude birth rate (CBR)	8.29 (year 2010, based on Human Fertility Database data last updated April 2013)	Data available 1956-2010; maximum value 18.14 in 1963, minimum value 8.12 in 2009.
total fertility rate (TFR)	1.394 (year 2010, based on Human Fertility Database data last updated April 2013) Compare to replacement fertility ~ 2.1	Data available 1956-2010; maximum value 2.535 in 1964, minimum value 1.243 in 1994.
TFR40	1.349 (year 2010, based on Human Fertility Database data last updated April 2013)	Data available 1956-2010; maximum value 2.463 in 1964, minimum value 1.224 in 1994.
completed cohort fertility	1.659 (birth cohort 1960, data last updated April 2013)	Data available for birth cohorts 1941-1960: maximum value 1.916 in 1941, minimum value 1.658 in 1954.
CCF40	1.453 (birth cohort 1970, data last updated April 2013)	Data available for birth cohorts 1941-1970: maximum value 1.902 in 1941, minimum value 1.445 in 1969.

Data on period fertility

Data on total indicators only without breakdown by birth order

Year	CBR (births per 1000 people per year)	CBR minus previous year's CBR	TFR (sum of all age-specific fertility rates), ballpark for replacement fertility is 2.1	TFR minus previous year's TFR	TFR40 (sum of age-specific fertility rates up to the age of 40), almost equal to TFR because births above the age of 40 are rare	TFR40 minus previous year's TFR40
1956	15.98		2.22		2.153
1957	16.36	0.38	2.274	0.054	2.208	0.055
1958	16.38	0.02	2.276	0.002	2.213	0.005
1959	17.2	0.82	2.368	0.092	2.303	0.09
1960	17.31	0.11	2.368	0	2.305	0.002
1961	17.89	0.58	2.444	0.076	2.382	0.077
1962	17.78	-0.11	2.44	-0.004	2.379	-0.003
1963	18.14	0.36	2.512	0.072	2.45	0.071
1964	18.02	-0.12	2.535	0.023	2.473	0.023
1965	17.44	-0.58	2.501	-0.034	2.441	-0.032
1966	17.21	-0.23	2.507	0.006	2.451	0.01
1967	16.53	-0.68	2.45	-0.057	2.398	-0.053
1968	15.71	-0.82	2.36	-0.09	2.31	-0.088
1969	14.66	-1.05	2.211	-0.149	2.164	-0.146
1970	13.4	-1.26	2.029	-0.182	1.986	-0.178
1971	12.94	-0.46	1.965	-0.064	1.923	-0.063
1972	11.46	-1.48	1.734	-0.231	1.697	-0.226
1973	10.34	-1.12	1.556	-0.178	1.524	-0.173
1974	10.2	-0.14	1.526	-0.03	1.496	-0.028
1975	9.94	-0.26	1.48	-0.046	1.454	-0.042
1976	10.19	0.25	1.507	0.027	1.484	0.03
1977	10.31	0.12	1.51	0.003	1.49	0.006
1978	10.35	0.04	1.501	-0.009	1.484	-0.006
1979	10.46	0.11	1.498	-0.003	1.482	-0.002
1980	11.06	0.6	1.561	0.063	1.545	0.063
1981	11	-0.06	1.529	-0.032	1.514	-0.031
1982	11	0	1.506	-0.023	1.491	-0.023
1983	10.6	-0.4	1.429	-0.077	1.415	-0.076
1984	10.43	-0.17	1.387	-0.042	1.373	-0.042
1985	10.48	0.05	1.374	-0.013	1.36	-0.013
1986	10.92	0.44	1.414	0.04	1.4	0.04
1987	11.15	0.23	1.434	0.02	1.418	0.018
1988	11.43	0.28	1.461	0.027	1.445	0.027
1989	11.18	-0.25	1.422	-0.039	1.404	-0.041
1990	11.41	0.23	1.452	0.03	1.434	0.03
1991	10.38	-1.03	1.331	-0.121	1.313	-0.121
1992	10.04	-0.34	1.296	-0.035	1.278	-0.035
1993	9.84	-0.2	1.279	-0.017	1.261	-0.017
1994	9.46	-0.38	1.243	-0.036	1.224	-0.037
1995	9.37	-0.09	1.249	0.006	1.231	0.007
1996	9.72	0.35	1.319	0.07	1.299	0.068
1997	9.9	0.18	1.37	0.051	1.348	0.049
1998	9.57	-0.33	1.355	-0.015	1.333	-0.015
1999	9.39	-0.18	1.361	0.006	1.338	0.005
2000	9.33	-0.06	1.383	0.022	1.358	0.02
2001	8.92	-0.41	1.349	-0.034	1.324	-0.034
2002	8.72	-0.2	1.342	-0.007	1.315	-0.009
2003	8.57	-0.15	1.34	-0.002	1.313	-0.002
2004	8.55	-0.02	1.359	0.019	1.33	0.017
2005	8.32	-0.23	1.34	-0.019	1.309	-0.021
2006	8.17	-0.15	1.331	-0.009	1.298	-0.011
2007	8.32	0.15	1.371	0.04	1.334	0.036
2008	8.31	-0.01	1.38	0.009	1.34	0.006
2009	8.12	-0.19	1.359	-0.021	1.317	-0.023
2010	8.29	0.17	1.394	0.035	1.349	0.032
Mean	11.7845454545	-0.1424074074	1.6816727273	-0.0152962963	1.6483818182	-0.0148888889
Median	10.46	-0.115	1.461	-0.0055	1.445	-0.0045
Standard deviation	3.2385552438	0.46242158	0.4435017247	0.0645348026	0.4279727618	0.063319098
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.1786031746	0.0014694111	-0.0234471861	0.0005254812	-0.022767316	0.0004302649
Multiplier for best log-linear fit (using linear regression on the logarithm)	0.9855550552		0.9870155751		0.9870882781

Data on cohort fertility

CCF and CCF40, not broken down by birth order

Year of birth	CCF	CCF minus previous year's CCF	CCF40	CCF40 minus previous year's CCF40
1941	1.916		1.902
1942	1.865	-0.051	1.851	-0.051
1943	1.829	-0.036	1.815	-0.036
1944	1.8	-0.029	1.786	-0.029
1945	1.795	-0.005	1.779	-0.007
1946	1.795	0	1.778	-0.001
1947	1.769	-0.026	1.753	-0.025
1948	1.749	-0.02	1.731	-0.022
1949	1.735	-0.014	1.717	-0.014
1950	1.723	-0.012	1.705	-0.012
1951	1.693	-0.03	1.675	-0.03
1952	1.687	-0.006	1.668	-0.007
1953	1.676	-0.011	1.657	-0.011
1954	1.658	-0.018	1.638	-0.019
1955	1.674	0.016	1.654	0.016
1956	1.671	-0.003	1.649	-0.005
1957	1.66	-0.011	1.637	-0.012
1958	1.662	0.002	1.638	0.001
1959	1.661	-0.001	1.636	-0.002
1960	1.659	-0.002	1.632	-0.004
1961			1.608	-0.024
1962			1.586	-0.022
1963			1.559	-0.027
1964			1.534	-0.025
1965			1.515	-0.019
1966			1.486	-0.029
1967			1.458	-0.028
1968			1.446	-0.012
1969			1.445	-0.001
1970			1.453	0.008
Mean	1.73385	0.0018824561	1.6463666667	0.001822807
Median	1.708	-0.011	1.6435	-0.012
Standard deviation	0.0777623065	0.0157739885	0.1233110682	0.015414924
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.0123646617	0.0018824561	-0.0137239155	0.001822807
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on the logarithm)	0.992973215		0.9916675959