Fertility in France
This page gives information of type fertility about the country France.
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Data sources
Some data on this page comes from the Human Fertility Database (website www.humanfertility.org) (data downloaded February 2014, last updated by HFD December 2012). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the government of France. 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.
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 | |||
| for linear regression | 0.9045829739 | 0.0372167946 | 0.7486059385 | 0.0602818478 | 0.7561480487 | 0.0497990333 |
