{"chart":{"title":"Total fertility rate: births per woman","subtitle":"The total fertility rate summarizes the total number of births a woman would have, if she experienced the birth rates seen in women of each age group in one particular year across her childbearing years.","citation":"Human Fertility Database (2026)","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/period-total-fertility-rate","selection":["Germany","Spain","United States","Japan","England and Wales","Chile","South Korea","Russia"]},"columns":{"Period total fertility rate - Total":{"titleShort":"Fertility rate: births per woman","titleLong":"Fertility rate: births per woman - HFD","descriptionShort":"Average number of children a woman would have in her lifetime if she experienced the fertility rates of a specific year.","descriptionKey":"- Assumes current age-specific fertility rates remain constant throughout a woman’s lifetime.\n- Does not account for potential changes in social, economic, or health conditions that could affect fertility rates.","descriptionProcessing":"HFD's data for France covers metropolitan France only. It doesn't include the overseas departments.","unit":"births per woman","timespan":"1891-2025","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":1353582,"shortName":"tfr__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. “Fertility rate: births per woman – HFD” [dataset]. Human Fertility Database, “Human Fertility Database” [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/1353582.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2026-10-31"}