Fertility in France

This page gives information of type fertility about the country France.
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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 February 2014, last updated December 2012). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the French government. Details about the modalities of data collection are available here.

Data on period fertility

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
1946	20.95		2.997		2.879
1947	21.39	0.44	3.038	0.041	2.917	0.038
1948	21.18	-0.21	3.02	-0.018	2.901	-0.016
1949	21.03	-0.15	3.004	-0.016	2.89	-0.011
1950	20.61	-0.42	2.947	-0.057	2.837	-0.053
1951	19.61	-1	2.806	-0.141	2.702	-0.135
1952	19.36	-0.25	2.777	-0.029	2.675	-0.027
1953	18.82	-0.54	2.704	-0.073	2.609	-0.066
1954	18.83	0.01	2.715	0.011	2.619	0.01
1955	18.55	-0.28	2.684	-0.031	2.592	-0.027
1956	18.4	-0.15	2.674	-0.01	2.585	-0.007
1957	18.42	0.02	2.695	0.021	2.607	0.022
1958	18.13	-0.29	2.684	-0.011	2.596	-0.011
1959	18.33	0.2	2.753	0.069	2.664	0.068
1960	17.94	-0.39	2.741	-0.012	2.657	-0.007
1961	18.16	0.22	2.826	0.085	2.742	0.085
1962	17.71	-0.45	2.796	-0.03	2.716	-0.026
1963	18.17	0.46	2.897	0.101	2.818	0.102
1964	18.17	0	2.915	0.018	2.836	0.018
1965	17.76	-0.41	2.848	-0.067	2.773	-0.063
1966	17.56	-0.2	2.799	-0.049	2.725	-0.048
1967	16.97	-0.59	2.67	-0.129	2.601	-0.124
1968	16.75	-0.22	2.587	-0.083	2.52	-0.081
1969	16.74	-0.01	2.534	-0.053	2.468	-0.052
1970	16.75	0.01	2.48	-0.054	2.419	-0.049
1971	17.2	0.45	2.496	0.016	2.435	0.016
1972	16.98	-0.22	2.418	-0.078	2.361	-0.074
1973	16.45	-0.53	2.308	-0.11	2.256	-0.105
1974	15.28	-1.17	2.112	-0.196	2.066	-0.19
1975	14.14	-1.14	1.927	-0.185	1.89	-0.176
1976	13.62	-0.52	1.83	-0.097	1.8	-0.09
1977	14.01	0.39	1.863	0.033	1.835	0.035
1978	13.81	-0.2	1.823	-0.04	1.798	-0.037
1979	14.13	0.32	1.856	0.033	1.832	0.034
1980	14.86	0.73	1.946	0.09	1.922	0.09
1981	14.87	0.01	1.946	0	1.921	-0.001
1982	14.63	-0.24	1.913	-0.033	1.888	-0.033
1983	13.67	-0.96	1.785	-0.128	1.761	-0.127
1984	13.81	0.14	1.802	0.017	1.778	0.017
1985	13.9	0.09	1.815	0.013	1.789	0.011
1986	14.02	0.12	1.832	0.017	1.806	0.017
1987	13.76	-0.26	1.802	-0.03	1.775	-0.031
1988	13.75	-0.01	1.806	0.004	1.778	0.003
1989	13.57	-0.18	1.788	-0.018	1.759	-0.019
1990	13.45	-0.12	1.779	-0.009	1.748	-0.011
1991	13.33	-0.12	1.77	-0.009	1.739	-0.009
1992	12.99	-0.34	1.734	-0.036	1.702	-0.037
1993	12.39	-0.6	1.661	-0.073	1.628	-0.074
1994	12.34	-0.05	1.663	0.002	1.63	0.002
1995	12.62	0.28	1.714	0.051	1.679	0.049
1996	12.66	0.04	1.734	0.02	1.698	0.019
1997	12.49	-0.17	1.726	-0.008	1.689	-0.009
1998	12.64	0.15	1.764	0.038	1.725	0.036
1999	12.7	0.06	1.792	0.028	1.75	0.025
2000	13.12	0.42	1.875	0.083	1.83	0.08
2001	12.97	-0.15	1.877	0.002	1.83	0
2002	12.72	-0.25	1.865	-0.012	1.817	-0.013
2003	12.63	-0.09	1.874	0.009	1.825	0.008
2004	12.65	0.02	1.898	0.024	1.847	0.022
2005	12.66	0.01	1.92	0.022	1.866	0.019
2006	12.94	0.28	1.981	0.061	1.925	0.059
2007	12.69	-0.25	1.96	-0.021	1.901	-0.024
2008	12.78	0.09	1.991	0.031	1.93	0.029
2009	12.67	-0.11	1.989	-0.002	1.927	-0.003
2010	12.74	0.07	2.014	0.025	1.949	0.022
Maximum	21.39	0.73	3.038	0.101	2.917	0.102
Minimum	12.34	-1.17	1.661	-0.196	1.628	-0.19
Average	15.5527692308	-0.12828125	2.2344615385	-0.015359375	2.1758923077	-0.01453125
Median	14.14	-0.12	1.981	-0.009	1.925	-0.008
Standard deviation	2.78188027	0.3711823866	0.4684568442	0.0611722437	0.4420217091	0.0591261682
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.1399344406	0.0038459249	-0.0214367133	0.0008066621	-0.0203286713	0.0007086538
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.944472325		0.9907183044		0.9909318061
$R^{2}$ for linear regression	0.9045829739	0.0372167946	0.7486059385	0.0602818478	0.7561480487	0.0497990333