Germany fertility rate, 1960 to 2024
Germany fertility rate stood at 1 in 2024, down 2.2% on the previous period.
The total fertility rate estimates how many children a woman would have if the birth rates of the year held across her childbearing years, from the World Bank. Around 2.1 births per woman keeps a population stable without migration. Since 1960 the series has ranged from 1.24 (1994) to 2.54 (1964); the latest reading is 1.36 for 2024, down from 1.39 the period before.
The long decline visible in most countries is the demographic transition: falling child mortality, urbanization, education, and later marriage all press the rate down. Where it sits relative to 2.1 shapes everything from school construction to pension math decades ahead.
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