Total fertility rate

Source: UNECE Statistical Database, compiled from national and international (Eurostat, UN Statistics Division Demographic Yearbook, WHO European health for all database and UNICEF TransMONEE) official sources.

Definition: The total fertility rate is defined as the average number of children that would be born alive to a woman during her lifetime if she were to pass through her childbearing years conforming to the age-specific fertility rates of a given year.

General note: Data come from registers, unless otherwise specified.

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Country: Cyprus

Data cover only government controlled area.

Country: Georgia

From 1995 : data do not cover Abkhazia and South Ossetia (Tshinvali).

Country: Germany

From 3 October 1990: data refer to the Federal Republic within its frontiers.

Country: Israel

Data include East Jerusalem and Israeli residents in certain other territories under occupation by Israeli military forces since June 1967.

Country: Russian Federation

1980 : data refer to 1980-1981.

Country: Serbia

Data do not cover Kosovo and Metohija.

Country: Turkiye

Data come from the national population projections, which are based on Population Census (2000) and Turkey Demographic and Health Survey (2003).