SGI 2022 | Sustainable Policies | Social Policies | Families

On average, how many children do women have during their lives?

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Values among 41 countries

Indicator metadata and score calculation

Definition:	Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
Year:	2020
Unit:	Ratio
Direction:	High values translate into high scores
Source 1:	World Bank, World Development Indicators
Data for:	AUS, AUT, BEL, BGR, CAN, CHL, HRV, CYP, CZE, DNK, EST, FIN, FRA, DEU, GRC, HUN, ISL, IRL, ISR, ITA, JPN, KOR, LVA, LTU, LUX, MLT, MEX, NLD, NZL, NOR, POL, PRT, ROU, SVK, SVN, ESP, SWE, CHE, TUR, GBR, USA
Annotation:	World Bank: Dataset: World Development Indicators, fertility rate, total (births per woman) [SP.DYN.TFRT.IN] URL: https://databank.worldbank.o… extracted June 11th, 2022

Calculation:	Long-term data series were used to set appropriate minimum and maximum values.
Maximum:	2.48
Minimum:	0.72
/	Above/Below IQR boundary value. See FAQ for further information.
Distance:	Distance=(value for calculation-minimum)/(maximum-minimum)
Score:	Score=1+relative distance*9

Top group

Score

Fertility Rate

Israel

10.0

2.90

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Upper middle group

Mexico

8.0

2.08

Turkey

7.8

2.04

France

6.7

1.83

Iceland

6.1

1.72

Czechia

6.1

1.71

Lower middle group

Denmark

5.9

1.67

Sweden

5.8

1.66

USA

5.7

1.64

Ireland

5.7

1.63

Chile

5.6

1.61

New Zealand

5.6

1.61

Romania

5.5

1.60

Slovenia

5.5

1.60

Australia

5.4

1.58

Estonia

5.4

1.58

Slovakia

5.3

1.57

Bulgaria

5.3

1.56

Hungary

5.3

1.56

5.3

1.56

Belgium

5.2

1.55

Latvia

5.2

1.55

Netherlands

5.2

1.55

Germany

5.1

1.53

Croatia

4.9

1.48

Lithuania

4.9

1.48

Norway

4.9

1.48

Switzerland

4.8

1.46

Austria

4.7

1.44

Canada

4.5

1.40

Portugal

4.5

1.40

Poland

4.4

1.38

Finland

4.3

1.37

Luxembourg

4.3

1.37

Greece

4.2

1.34

Japan

4.2

1.34

Cyprus

4.0

1.31

Italy

3.7

1.24

Spain

3.6

1.23

Malta

3.1

1.13

Bottom group

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South Korea

1.6

0.84