Period fertility in UK
This page gives information of type period 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.
Total indicators only without breakdown by birth order
Total indicators with year-on-year differences (change measured additively)
| 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 | |||
| for linear regression | 0.0857362041 | 0.0776628224 | 0.0004014848 | 0.29395424 | 0.0201133068 | 0.268278503 |
