Fertility in UK

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

Some data on this page comes from the Human Fertility Database (website www.humanfertility.org) (data downloaded February 26, 2014, last updated by HFD June 25, 2013). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the government of UK. 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

Total indicators only without breakdown by birth order

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
1974	13.1		1.914		1.883
1975	12.4	-0.7	1.805	-0.109	1.777	-0.106
1976	12.01	-0.39	1.739	-0.066	1.714	-0.063
1977	11.69	-0.32	1.683	-0.056	1.659	-0.055
1978	12.22	0.53	1.75	0.067	1.727	0.068
1979	13.06	0.84	1.86	0.11	1.836	0.109
1980	13.38	0.32	1.894	0.034	1.87	0.034
1981	12.97	-0.41	1.823	-0.071	1.798	-0.072
1982	12.77	-0.2	1.779	-0.044	1.755	-0.043
1983	12.81	0.04	1.768	-0.011	1.744	-0.011
1984	12.93	0.12	1.766	-0.002	1.742	-0.002
1985	13.28	0.35	1.793	0.027	1.768	0.026
1986	13.32	0.04	1.78	-0.013	1.756	-0.012
1987	13.66	0.34	1.811	0.031	1.786	0.03
1988	13.83	0.17	1.824	0.013	1.799	0.013
1989	13.62	-0.21	1.791	-0.033	1.766	-0.033
1990	13.95	0.33	1.834	0.043	1.807	0.041
1991	13.8	-0.15	1.818	-0.016	1.79	-0.017
1992	13.56	-0.24	1.795	-0.023	1.765	-0.025
1993	13.2	-0.36	1.758	-0.037	1.727	-0.038
1994	12.97	-0.23	1.74	-0.018	1.708	-0.019
1995	12.62	-0.35	1.709	-0.031	1.676	-0.032
1996	12.61	-0.01	1.727	0.018	1.692	0.016
1997	12.46	-0.15	1.725	-0.002	1.688	-0.004
1998	12.26	-0.2	1.714	-0.011	1.676	-0.012
1999	11.94	-0.32	1.685	-0.029	1.646	-0.03
2000	11.54	-0.4	1.642	-0.043	1.602	-0.044
2001	11.32	-0.22	1.627	-0.015	1.585	-0.017
2002	11.27	-0.05	1.634	0.007	1.59	0.005
2003	11.67	0.4	1.705	0.071	1.658	0.068
2004	11.94	0.27	1.755	0.05	1.705	0.047
2005	11.97	0.03	1.765	0.01	1.712	0.007
2006	12.31	0.34	1.82	0.055	1.764	0.052
2007	12.6	0.29	1.869	0.049	1.81	0.046
2008	12.86	0.26	1.915	0.046	1.853	0.043
2009	12.7	-0.16	1.897	-0.018	1.833	-0.02
2010	12.87	0.17	1.927	0.03	1.861	0.028
2011	12.8	-0.07	1.923	-0.004	1.853	-0.008
Maximum	13.95	0.84	1.927	0.11	1.883	0.109
Minimum	11.27	-0.7	1.627	-0.109	1.585	-0.106
Average	12.6913157895	-0.0081081081	1.7832631579	0.0002432432	1.7468684211	-0.0008108108
Median	12.785	-0.05	1.7795	-0.004	1.7555	-0.008
Standard deviation	0.7136778403	0.3248148005	0.0804718128	0.0448636238	0.0777936185	0.0440301903
Slope for best linear fit (using linear regression)	-0.0188040267	0.0023304884	0.0001450925	0.0012183499	-0.0009927782	0.0010912755
Multiplier for best logarithmic fit (using linear regression on logarithm)	0.9985079181		1.0000366522		0.999401821
$R^2$ for linear regression	0.0857362041	0.0776628224	0.0004014848	0.29395424	0.0201133068	0.268278503