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Total fertility rate versus shifted cohort fertility rate, Sweden

Two measures of fertility rate are compared: the total fertility rate (a summary metric based on birth rates acrossdifferent age groups of women in one particular year) and the completed cohort fertility rate (the average number ofchildren born to a woman by the end of her childbearing years).

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Data source: HFD; Human Fertility Database (2024) – Learn more about this data

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Note: The completed cohort fertility rate is typically given by the woman's birth year. In this chart, it has been shifted +30 years to seehow the two measures compare at roughly the average age of mothers at childbirth.

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