Fertility in Sweden

Data sources

Most of the data on this page comes from the Human Fertility Database (website www.humanfertility.org) (data downloaded on February 12, 2014, last updated Ocotber 31, 2011). The data collected by the Human Fertility Database is based on government data collection by the government of Sweden. Details about the modalities of data collection are available here.

Data on period fertility

Data on total fertility rate broken down by birth order

Year	TFR	TFR1	TFR2	TFR3	TFR4	TFR5+	TFR40	TFR40_1	TFR40_2	TFR40_3	TFR40_4	TFR40_5+
1970	1.919	0.805	0.681	0.286	0.092	0.054	1.886	0.801	0.674	0.279	0.086	0.045
1971	1.961	0.853	0.688	0.283	0.089	0.049	1.931	0.849	0.682	0.276	0.083	0.041
1972	1.913	0.842	0.676	0.271	0.081	0.043	1.886	0.839	0.671	0.264	0.076	0.035
1973	1.868	0.833	0.658	0.262	0.076	0.039	1.844	0.83	0.654	0.256	0.071	0.033
1974	1.876	0.838	0.678	0.254	0.071	0.034	1.853	0.834	0.673	0.249	0.067	0.029
1975	1.769	0.799	0.65	0.23	0.061	0.031	1.75	0.796	0.646	0.225	0.057	0.026
1976	1.682	0.751	0.635	0.214	0.056	0.027	1.663	0.747	0.631	0.21	0.052	0.022
1977	1.646	0.719	0.638	0.21	0.054	0.025	1.627	0.716	0.635	0.206	0.05	0.021
1978	1.6	0.681	0.625	0.216	0.055	0.024	1.581	0.678	0.621	0.211	0.052	0.02
1979	1.658	0.697	0.632	0.242	0.061	0.026	1.636	0.694	0.627	0.236	0.057	0.022
1980	1.68	0.715	0.626	0.248	0.064	0.027	1.659	0.712	0.622	0.243	0.06	0.022
1981	1.636	0.688	0.607	0.253	0.063	0.025	1.613	0.685	0.602	0.247	0.059	0.021
1982	1.627	0.678	0.604	0.256	0.064	0.025	1.603	0.675	0.599	0.25	0.059	0.021
1983	1.614	0.667	0.594	0.261	0.068	0.025	1.591	0.664	0.589	0.254	0.063	0.02
1984	1.658	0.673	0.607	0.275	0.075	0.028	1.631	0.67	0.602	0.268	0.069	0.023
1985	1.74	0.706	0.622	0.298	0.083	0.031	1.713	0.702	0.616	0.29	0.078	0.026
1986	1.8	0.747	0.632	0.303	0.086	0.032	1.772	0.743	0.626	0.295	0.08	0.027
1987	1.844	0.77	0.653	0.301	0.086	0.034	1.815	0.766	0.646	0.292	0.081	0.029
1988	1.967	0.818	0.697	0.321	0.093	0.037	1.936	0.814	0.69	0.313	0.087	0.032
1989	2.02	0.851	0.701	0.331	0.099	0.039	1.986	0.846	0.693	0.321	0.092	0.034
1990	2.14	0.897	0.739	0.348	0.11	0.046	2.103	0.892	0.731	0.337	0.103	0.04
1991	2.113	0.867	0.738	0.351	0.109	0.048	2.075	0.861	0.73	0.34	0.102	0.042
1992	2.077	0.825	0.751	0.342	0.112	0.048	2.037	0.818	0.741	0.332	0.105	0.041
1993	1.982	0.785	0.721	0.323	0.103	0.05	1.943	0.779	0.712	0.313	0.096	0.044
1994	1.883	0.745	0.7	0.298	0.094	0.047	1.844	0.738	0.69	0.288	0.087	0.04
1995	1.731	0.697	0.642	0.271	0.081	0.04	1.694	0.69	0.632	0.261	0.076	0.035
1996	1.6	0.665	0.593	0.235	0.07	0.038	1.564	0.659	0.582	0.226	0.064	0.032
1997	1.528	0.642	0.568	0.217	0.066	0.034	1.491	0.635	0.558	0.208	0.061	0.029
1998	1.517	0.637	0.559	0.22	0.065	0.036	1.479	0.629	0.549	0.211	0.06	0.03
1999	1.512	0.65	0.546	0.217	0.064	0.035	1.473	0.642	0.535	0.208	0.059	0.029
2000	1.559	0.697	0.54	0.22	0.065	0.037	1.518	0.689	0.529	0.21	0.06	0.031
2001	1.58	0.716	0.552	0.214	0.063	0.035	1.537	0.706	0.54	0.205	0.058	0.028
2002	1.665	0.77	0.583	0.216	0.062	0.034	1.619	0.759	0.57	0.205	0.056	0.028
2003	1.731	0.791	0.612	0.227	0.066	0.034	1.681	0.781	0.598	0.215	0.06	0.028
2004	1.771	0.807	0.636	0.23	0.064	0.035	1.717	0.795	0.62	0.217	0.057	0.028
2005	1.787	0.808	0.653	0.228	0.065	0.033	1.733	0.796	0.638	0.215	0.058	0.027
2006	1.869	0.85	0.679	0.24	0.066	0.035	1.811	0.837	0.662	0.226	0.058	0.028
2007	1.892	0.863	0.68	0.248	0.066	0.035	1.828	0.849	0.66	0.233	0.059	0.028
2008	1.917	0.879	0.685	0.249	0.067	0.037	1.853	0.865	0.665	0.235	0.059	0.029
2009	1.937	0.883	0.705	0.247	0.066	0.037	1.868	0.867	0.683	0.231	0.057	0.03
2010	1.987	0.888	0.732	0.259	0.068	0.039	1.914	0.871	0.709	0.243	0.06	0.031