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Total fertility rate
www.gapm.io/dtfr
https://github.com/Gapminder-Indicators/tfr/blob/master/tfr-by-gapminder.xlsx
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December 12, 2017
Ola Rosling
https://www.gapminder.org/data/documentation/method/
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geo.name indicator.name geo indicator 1800 1801
Abkhazia Total fertility rate abkh tfr
Afghanistan Total fertility rate afg tfr 7 7
Akrotiri and Total fertility rate akr_a_dhe tfr
Albania Total fertility rate alb tfr 4.6 4.6
Algeria Total fertility rate dza tfr 6.99 6.99
American Sa Total fertility rate asm tfr
Andorra Total fertility rate and tfr
Angola Total fertility rate ago tfr 6.93 6.93
Anguilla Total fertility rate aia tfr
Antigua and Total fertility rate atg tfr 5 5
Argentina Total fertility rate arg tfr 6.8 6.8
Armenia Total fertility rate arm tfr 7.8 7.8
Aruba Total fertility rate abw tfr 5.64 5.64
Australia Total fertility rate aus tfr 6.5 6.48
Austria Total fertility rate aut tfr 5.1 5.1
Azerbaijan Total fertility rate aze tfr 8.1 8.1
Bahamas Total fertility rate bhs tfr 5.9 5.9
Bahrain Total fertility rate bhr tfr 7.03 7.03
Bangladesh Total fertility rate bgd tfr 6.7 6.7
Barbados Total fertility rate brb tfr 4.96 4.93
Belarus Total fertility rate blr tfr 7 7
Belgium Total fertility rate bel tfr 4.85 4.85
Belize Total fertility rate blz tfr 6.69 6.69
Benin Total fertility rate ben tfr 5.55 5.55
Bermuda Total fertility rate bmu tfr
Bhutan Total fertility rate btn tfr 6.67 6.67
Bolivia Total fertility rate bol tfr 6.48 6.48
Bosnia and H Total fertility rate bih tfr 5.91 5.91
Botswana Total fertility rate bwa tfr 6.47 6.47
Brazil Total fertility rate bra tfr 6.26 6.26
British Virgin Total fertility rate vgb tfr
Brunei Total fertility rate brn tfr 7.06 7.06
Bulgaria Total fertility rate bgr tfr 5.16 5.16
Burkina Faso Total fertility rate bfa tfr 6.03 6.03
Burundi Total fertility rate bdi tfr 6.8 6.8
Cambodia Total fertility rate khm tfr 6.95 6.95
Cameroon Total fertility rate cmr tfr 5.54 5.54
Canada Total fertility rate can tfr 5.72 5.72
Cape Verde Total fertility rate cpv tfr 6.43 6.43
Cayman IslanTotal fertility rate cym tfr
Central Afric Total fertility rate caf tfr 6.51 6.51
Chad Total fertility rate tcd tfr 6.06 6.06
Channel IslanTotal fertility rate chanisl tfr 5.07 5.07
Chile Total fertility rate chl tfr 5.98 5.98
China Total fertility rate chn tfr 5.5 5.5
Christmas Isl Total fertility rate cxr tfr
Cocos Island Total fertility rate cck tfr
Colombia Total fertility rate col tfr 6.19 6.19
Comoros Total fertility rate com tfr 6.01 6.01
Congo, Dem. Total fertility rate cod tfr 5.99 5.99
Congo, Rep. Total fertility rate cog tfr 5.67 5.67
Cook Is Total fertility rate cok tfr
Costa Rica Total fertility rate cri tfr 6.93 6.93
Cote d'Ivoire Total fertility rate civ tfr 6.78 6.78
Croatia Total fertility rate hrv tfr 5.75 5.75
Cuba Total fertility rate cub tfr 5.78 5.78
Cyprus Total fertility rate cyp tfr 6.03 6.03
Czech RepublTotal fertility rate cze tfr 5.33 5.32
CzechoslovakTotal fertility rate cheslo tfr
Denmark Total fertility rate dnk tfr 4.04 4.04
Djibouti Total fertility rate dji tfr 6.3 6.3
Dominica Total fertility rate dma tfr
Dominican ReTotal fertility rate dom tfr 6.16 6.16
East GermanyTotal fertility rate deu_east tfr
Ecuador Total fertility rate ecu tfr 6.98 6.98
Egypt Total fertility rate egy tfr 6.06 6.06
El Salvador Total fertility rate slv tfr 5.9 5.9
Equatorial GuTotal fertility rate gnq tfr 5.51 5.51
Eritrea Total fertility rate eri tfr 6.96 6.96
Eritrea and E Total fertility rate eri_a_eth tfr
Estonia Total fertility rate est tfr 5.59 5.5
Ethiopia Total fertility rate eth tfr 7.17 7.17
Faeroe IslandTotal fertility rate fro tfr
Falkland Is (MTotal fertility rate flk tfr
Fiji Total fertility rate fji tfr 6.45 6.45
Finland Total fertility rate fin tfr 4.92 5.07
France Total fertility rate fra tfr 4.41 4.36
French GuianTotal fertility rate guf tfr 6.27 6.27
French PolyneTotal fertility rate pyf tfr 5.97 5.97
Gabon Total fertility rate gab tfr 6.5 6.5
Gambia Total fertility rate gmb tfr 6.51 6.51
Georgia Total fertility rate geo tfr 7.8 7.8
Germany Total fertility rate deu tfr 5.4 5.4
Ghana Total fertility rate gha tfr 6.43 6.43
Gibraltar Total fertility rate gib tfr
Greece Total fertility rate grc tfr 6.03 6.03
Greenland Total fertility rate grl tfr 4.9 4.89
Grenada Total fertility rate grd tfr 5.81 5.81
Guadeloupe Total fertility rate glp tfr 5.62 5.62
Guam Total fertility rate gum tfr 6.37 6.37
Guatemala Total fertility rate gtm tfr 6.45 6.45
Guernsey Total fertility rate gbg tfr
Guinea Total fertility rate gin tfr 6.11 6.11
Guinea-Bissa Total fertility rate gnb tfr 7.25 7.25
Guyana Total fertility rate guy tfr 5.01 5.01
Haiti Total fertility rate hti tfr 6.31 6.31
Holy See Total fertility rate hos tfr
Honduras Total fertility rate hnd tfr 6.05 6.05
Hong Kong, CTotal fertility rate hkg tfr 5.47 5.47
Hungary Total fertility rate hun tfr 5.18 5.18
Iceland Total fertility rate isl tfr 4.88 4.88
India Total fertility rate ind tfr 5.95 5.95
Indonesia Total fertility rate idn tfr 6.07 6.07
Iran Total fertility rate irn tfr 7.08 7.08
Iraq Total fertility rate irq tfr 7.13 7.13
Ireland Total fertility rate irl tfr 4.2 4.2
Isle of Man Total fertility rate gbm tfr
Israel Total fertility rate isr tfr 6 5.99
Italy Total fertility rate ita tfr 5.47 5.47
Jamaica Total fertility rate jam tfr 5.13 5.13
Japan Total fertility rate jpn tfr 4.08 4.11
Jersey Total fertility rate jey tfr
Jordan Total fertility rate jor tfr 6.97 6.97
Kazakhstan Total fertility rate kaz tfr 6.45 6.45
Kenya Total fertility rate ken tfr 6.91 6.91
Kiribati Total fertility rate kir tfr 5.67 5.67
North Korea Total fertility rate prk tfr 6.1 6.1
South
UnitedKorea
Korea Total fertility rate
(former) kor tfr 6 6
Total fertility rate korea_union tfr
Kosovo Total fertility rate kos tfr
Kuwait Total fertility rate kwt tfr 6.87 6.87
Kyrgyz RepublTotal fertility rate kgz tfr 6.58 6.58
Lao Total fertility rate lao tfr 6.13 6.13
Latvia Total fertility rate lva tfr 5.2 5.19
Lebanon Total fertility rate lbn tfr 5.74 5.74
Lesotho Total fertility rate lso tfr 5.84 5.84
Liberia Total fertility rate lbr tfr 6.19 6.19
Libya Total fertility rate lby tfr 7.2 7.2
LiechtensteinTotal fertility rate lie tfr
Lithuania Total fertility rate ltu tfr 5.76 5.76
Luxembourg Total fertility rate lux tfr 4.78 4.78
Macao, ChinaTotal fertility rate mac tfr 5.51 5.51
Macedonia, FTotal fertility rate mkd tfr 5.9 5.9
Madagascar Total fertility rate mdg tfr 6.89 6.89
Malawi Total fertility rate mwi tfr 6.78 6.78
Malaysia Total fertility rate mys tfr 5.45 5.45
Maldives Total fertility rate mdv tfr 5.98 5.98
Mali Total fertility rate mli tfr 6.23 6.23
Malta Total fertility rate mlt tfr 5.49 5.49
Marshall Isla Total fertility rate mhl tfr
Martinique Total fertility rate mtq tfr 5.71 5.71
Mauritania Total fertility rate mrt tfr 6.34 6.34
Mauritius Total fertility rate mus tfr 5.03 5.03
Mayotte Total fertility rate myt tfr 7.07 7.07
Mexico Total fertility rate mex tfr 6.8 6.8
Micronesia, FeTotal fertility rate fsm tfr 6.02 6.02
Moldova Total fertility rate mda tfr 6.39 6.39
Monaco Total fertility rate mco tfr
Mongolia Total fertility rate mng tfr 5.94 5.94
Montenegro Total fertility rate mne tfr 5.9 5.9
Montserrat Total fertility rate msr tfr
Morocco Total fertility rate mar tfr 6.5 6.5
MozambiqueTotal fertility rate moz tfr 6.63 6.63
Myanmar Total fertility rate mmr tfr 6.03 6.03
Namibia Total fertility rate nam tfr 5.96 5.96
Nauru Total fertility rate nru tfr
Nepal Total fertility rate npl tfr 6.15 6.15
Netherlands Total fertility rate nld tfr 5.11 5.11
Netherlands ATotal fertility rate ant tfr 5.8 5.8
New CaledoniTotal fertility rate ncl tfr 6.41 6.41
New Zealand Total fertility rate nzl tfr 5.25 5.25
Ngorno-Kara Total fertility rate ngokar tfr
Nicaragua Total fertility rate nic tfr 6.16 6.16
Niger Total fertility rate ner tfr 6.83 6.83
Nigeria Total fertility rate nga tfr 6.55 6.55
Niue Total fertility rate niu tfr
Norfolk Islan Total fertility rate nfk tfr
Northern CypTotal fertility rate cyp_nor tfr
Northern MariTotal fertility rate mnp tfr
Norway Total fertility rate nor tfr 4.32 4.07
Oman Total fertility rate omn tfr 6.88 6.88
Pakistan Total fertility rate pak tfr 6.59 6.59
Palau Total fertility rate plw tfr
Panama Total fertility rate pan tfr 5.36 5.36
Papua New GTotal fertility rate png tfr 6.23 6.23
Paraguay Total fertility rate pry tfr 6.49 6.49
Peru Total fertility rate per tfr 6.82 6.82
Philippines Total fertility rate phl tfr 6.45 6.41
Pitcairn Total fertility rate pcn tfr
Poland Total fertility rate pol tfr 6.28 6.26
Portugal Total fertility rate prt tfr 4.5 4.5
Puerto Rico Total fertility rate pri tfr 5.15 5.15
Qatar Total fertility rate qat tfr 6.97 6.97
Reunion Total fertility rate reu tfr 6.51 6.51
Romania Total fertility rate rou tfr 5.22 5.22
Russia Total fertility rate rus tfr 7 7
Rwanda Total fertility rate rwa tfr 7.07 7.07
St. BarthélemTotal fertility rate stbar tfr
St. Helena Total fertility rate shn tfr
St. Kitts and Total fertility rate kna tfr
St. Lucia Total fertility rate lca tfr 5.53 5.53
St. Martin Total fertility rate stmar tfr
St. Vincent a Total fertility rate vct tfr 6.54 6.54
St.-Pierre-et Total fertility rate spm tfr
Samoa Total fertility rate wsm tfr 6.98 6.98
San Marino Total fertility rate smr tfr
Sao Tome andTotal fertility rate stp tfr 6.23 6.23
Saudi Arabia Total fertility rate sau tfr 6.86 6.86
Senegal Total fertility rate sen tfr 5.7 5.7
Serbia Total fertility rate srb tfr 5.9 5.9
Serbia and MTotal fertility rate scg tfr
Serbia excludTotal fertility rate scg_ex_kos tfr
Seychelles Total fertility rate syc tfr 5.16 5.16
Sierra Leone Total fertility rate sle tfr 5.72 5.72
Singapore Total fertility rate sgp tfr 5.47 5.47
Slovak RepublTotal fertility rate svk tfr 5.94 5.94
Slovenia Total fertility rate svn tfr 4.93 4.92
Solomon Isla Total fertility rate slb tfr 6.42 6.42
Somalia Total fertility rate som tfr 6.87 6.87
Somaliland Total fertility rate som_somlandtfr
South Africa Total fertility rate zaf tfr 6.47 6.47
South OssetiaTotal fertility rate sosset tfr
Spain Total fertility rate esp tfr 5.13 5.13
Sri Lanka Total fertility rate lka tfr 5.68 5.68
Sudan Total fertility rate sdn tfr 6.64 6.64
Suriname Total fertility rate sur tfr 6.58 6.58
Svalbard Total fertility rate sjm tfr
Swaziland Total fertility rate swz tfr 6.71 6.71
Sweden Total fertility rate swe tfr 4.07 4.26
Switzerland Total fertility rate che tfr 4.14 4.14
Syria Total fertility rate syr tfr 6.85 6.85
Taiwan Total fertility rate twn tfr 5.83 5.83
Tajikistan Total fertility rate tjk tfr 5.87 5.87
Tanzania Total fertility rate tza tfr 6.74 6.74
Thailand Total fertility rate tha tfr 6.35 6.35
Timor-Leste Total fertility rate tls tfr 6.52 6.52
Togo Total fertility rate tgo tfr 6.34 6.34
Tokelau Total fertility rate tkl tfr
Tonga Total fertility rate ton tfr 6.51 6.51
Transnistria Total fertility rate transn tfr
Trinidad and Total fertility rate tto tfr 4.44 4.44
Tunisia Total fertility rate tun tfr 6.4 6.4
Turkey Total fertility rate tur tfr 6.92 6.92
TurkmenistanTotal fertility rate tkm tfr 6.22 6.22
Turks and CaiTotal fertility rate tca tfr
Tuvalu Total fertility rate tuv tfr
Uganda Total fertility rate uga tfr 6.89 6.89
Ukraine Total fertility rate ukr tfr 7.5 7.5
United Arab Total fertility rate are tfr 6.94 6.94
United Kingd Total fertility rate gbr tfr 4.97 4.6
United StatesTotal fertility rate usa tfr 7.03 7.01
Uruguay Total fertility rate ury tfr 5.97 5.97
USSR Total fertility rate ussr tfr
Uzbekistan Total fertility rate uzb tfr 5.71 5.71
Wallis et Fut Total fertility rate wlf tfr
Vanuatu Total fertility rate vut tfr 6.6 6.6
Venezuela Total fertility rate ven tfr 5.63 5.63
Palestine Total fertility rate pse tfr 6.97 6.97
West GermanTotal fertility rate deu_west tfr
Western SahaTotal fertility rate esh tfr 6.32 6.32
Vietnam Total fertility rate vnm tfr 4.7 4.7
Virgin IslandsTotal fertility rate vir tfr 5.55 5.55
North YemenTotal fertility rate yem_north tfr
South YemenTotal fertility rate yem_south tfr
Yemen Total fertility rate yem tfr 6.88 6.88
Yugoslavia Total fertility rate yug tfr
Zambia Total fertility rate zmb tfr 6.71 6.71
Zimbabwe Total fertility rate zwe tfr 6.75 6.75
Åland Total fertility rate ala tfr
South Sudan Total fertility rate ssd tfr 6.64 6.64
Curaçao Total fertility rate nld_curacao tfr
Sint Maarten Total fertility rate sxm tfr
St. Martin (FrTotal fertility rate maf tfr
Antarctica Total fertility rate ata tfr
Bouvet IslandTotal fertility rate bouisl tfr
British IndianTotal fertility rate iot tfr
Clipperton Total fertility rate fra_clipperto tfr
French SoutheTotal fertility rate fra_antarc tfr
Gaza Strip Total fertility rate pse_gaza tfr
Heard and McTotal fertility rate heard_a_mcdtfr
Northern MarTotal fertility rate n_marianas tfr
South GeorgiaTotal fertility rate sgero_a_ssa tfr
US Minor OutlTotal fertility rate usa_minor_outfr
Virgin IslandsTotal fertility rate virg_isl tfr
West Bank Total fertility rate pse_west_batfr
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