Lowest Fertility Rate
Understand lowest fertility rate: what the measure counts, how to read it and where to check the source.
The fertility rate is a model of a lifetime built from birth rates observed during one period. It is not the number of children that women alive today have already had. Delaying parenthood can lower a period fertility rate even when some births happen later. That is why one year's figure needs context from age at childbirth and longer trends.
About the data
Births per woman. The saved topic includes SARs but records no year; the linked current table may differ.
The Country10s question
10 countries with the lowest fertility rates (including special administrative regions)
Reading the source
Births per woman. The saved topic includes SARs but records no year; the linked current table may differ.
The original source edition for this saved game was not retained. The link is a reference for understanding the measure, not proof that the saved answer order is a current world ranking. No unverified top-ten table is presented here.