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Total Fertility Rate, 1974

1974, as UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release gives it · stored as published, never rewritten

The total fertility rate is the number of children a woman would have over her lifetime if, at each age, she had children at the rate women of that age did in the year measured. It is the standard measure of how many children a society is having, because unlike a birth rate it does not depend on how many women happen to be of childbearing age.

Total Fertility Rate, 1974 covers 222 countries. Yemen is highest, at 8.3258; Vatican City is lowest, at 1.0000. The middle country reads 5.0965. Against 1973, 221 values changed (55 up, 166 down), the same countries are covered.

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Total Fertility Rate · Data for 1974

HighestYemen

8.3258

LowestVatican City

1.0000

Shaded by value in five groups of equal size, darkest at the highest end.

01Values only

The table

Every country and every column of Total Fertility Rate, 1974, as published. The file carries values only, so no position is shown. “=” marks a shared position.

Showing 25 of 222 countries · select a heading to sort

Total Fertility Rate, 1974: every country, as published by UN DESA Population Division.
YemenYEMWestern Asia8.3258
RwandaRWAEastern Africa8.1022
LibyaLBYNorthern Africa8.0203
JordanJORWestern Asia7.9967
Côte d’IvoireCIVWestern Africa7.9289
Marshall IslandsMHLMicronesia7.8994
KenyaKENEastern Africa7.8223
OmanOMNWestern Asia7.6718
AlgeriaDZANorthern Africa7.5447
NigerNERWestern Africa7.5394
AfghanistanAFGSouthern Asia7.5258
SyriaSYRWestern Asia7.5197
PalestinePSEWestern Asia7.5195
AngolaAGOMiddle Africa7.4995
Saudi ArabiaSAUWestern Asia7.4263
MaldivesMDVSouthern Asia7.3769
ZambiaZMBEastern Africa7.3641
MalawiMWIEastern Africa7.3440
South SudanSSDEastern Africa7.3142
SenegalSENWestern Africa7.2521
MaliMLIWestern Africa7.2282
BurundiBDIEastern Africa7.2222
UgandaUGAEastern Africa7.1915
MongoliaMNGEastern Asia7.1735
ComorosCOMEastern Africa7.1631

02In 1974

At either end

The 5 countries at each end of the headline.

Highest

  1. Yemen8.3258
  2. Rwanda8.1022
  3. Libya8.0203
  4. Jordan7.9967
  5. Côte d’Ivoire7.9289

Lowest

  1. Vatican City1.0000
  2. Germany1.5209
  3. Luxembourg1.5853
  4. Finland1.6086
  5. Switzerland1.7291

Neither end is better. The values describe a shape, not a score. The middle country reads 5.0965. “Shared” marks a value another country also holds.

031973 → 1974

Since 1973

What changed between 1973 and this one: who joined or left, and how far the headline moved.

  • +0 / −0countries joined / left
  • 221values changed, of 222 in both
  • 55 · 166rose · fell
  • 1unchanged

Rose most

Fell most

Both years come from the same release, so a difference here is a change in the data, not a revision of it. Every country’s full history is charted on the statistic page.

04Caveats

Read before you use

What this edition’s numbers are and are not, worked out from the file itself.

How values are stored

  • One year of the 2024 release

    Every year in this series comes from UN DESA Population Division’s 2024 release, recalculated on one method. It can differ from what was first published for 1974.

  • 221 distinct values among 222

    Values are stored exactly as published, to 6 decimals. 2 countries share 3.1637. Countries sharing a value share a position too.

  • Nothing missing

    Every one of the 222 countries has every column.

05The files

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The table as a file, digit for digit, what this site changed, and a citation for this edition.

Licence in full

What this site changed: Reshaped into one row per country: regional and income-group totals are left out, only the columns listed are kept, each row gets its ISO 3166 code, and some country names are brought to one spelling. No value is recalculated, rescaled or rounded.

Licence: CC BY 3.0 IGO · what it allows, in plain words

Cite this edition

UN DESA Population Division (1974). Total Fertility Rate, 1974 [data set], describing 1974. As held by Nations Inquiry, https://nationsinquiry.com/datasets/fertility-rate/1974

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