{"chart":{"title":"Completed cohort fertility rate: births per woman","subtitle":"The average number of children born to a woman by the end of her childbearing years, given by her birth year.","note":"","xAxisLabel":"Women's birth year","citation":"Human Fertility Database (2026)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cohort-fertility-rate","selection":["United States","England and Wales","Russia","Germany","Japan","Spain"]},"columns":{"Completed cohort fertility rate - Total":{"titleShort":"Completed cohort fertility rate","titleLong":"Completed cohort fertility rate","descriptionShort":"Average number of children born to women in the current cohort over their lifetime.","descriptionKey":"- Shows the total number of children that women born in the same year have by the end of their childbearing years.\n- Helps compare how many children different generations of women have on average.\n- Calculated using the actual number of births recorded at different ages throughout a woman’s childbearing years.","descriptionProcessing":"HFD's data for France covers metropolitan France only. It doesn't include the overseas departments.","unit":"births per woman","timespan":"1876-1975","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1353387,"shortName":"ccf__birth_order_total","lastUpdated":"2026-10-22","nextUpdate":"2027-10-22","citationShort":"Human Fertility Database (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data","citationLong":"Human Fertility Database (2026) – with minor processing by Our World in Data. “Completed cohort fertility rate – HFD” [dataset]. Human Fertility Database, “Human Fertility Database” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1353387.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}