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Where births are falling, where they are not, and how far each place has travelled. Country figures load fresh from the World Bank when you open the page.
Country figures are requested from the World Bank each time the page loads and are not stored on this site. City figures are copied by hand from the sources named on each card.
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Total fertility rate: the average number of children a woman would have over her life at today's age-specific birth rates. About 2.1 is the usual replacement level, drawn as a dashed line on the fertility charts.
Crude birth rate: births per 1,000 people in a year. It also moves with a population's age mix, so an ageing country can show a low crude rate even where each woman has more children.
Country series come from the World Bank's World Development Indicators, compiled from United Nations Population Division estimates and national offices. Recent years are often modelled rather than counted, and the latest year differs by country.
Small states and territories are too small to draw on the map. They are in the selector and the Extremes tab.
City figures follow each office's own definition, including who is counted (nationals only, or permanent residents), so cities are not ranked against one another. A city appears only where a figure was read from a published source.
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No single dataset covers cities worldwide, so each figure is read from that place's own statistics office. The measures and definitions differ, so these are not ranked against one another.
Japan
0.96births per woman, 2024
Total fertility rate
Computed by Japan’s health ministry from births to Japanese nationals and the Japanese female population aged 15 to 49. The 23 wards range from 0.84 (Toshima) to 1.25 (Chuo) in 2024 under the metropolitan government’s own method, which is not directly comparable.
South Korea
0.63births per woman, 2025
Total fertility rate
Read from press reports of the national statistics release, not from the statistics office’s own table. Earlier years are not shown because they have not yet been read from a source. The 2025 figure is the most recent available.
Hong Kong SAR
0.77births per woman, 2021
Total fertility rate
Selected years only: the Department publishes the rate per 1,000 women and these are the years read so far, so the line joins points several years apart. Excludes female foreign domestic helpers. Years after 2021 are not shown.
China
6.09births per 1,000 residents, 2024
Crude birth rate
One year read; no trend yet.
Permanent-resident population, which includes residents without local household registration. One year only; a series has not been read yet.
China
4.35births per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crude birth rate
One year read; no trend yet.
Permanent-resident population. One year only, and not the latest published year; a series has not been read yet.
United States
11.9births per 1,000 residents, 2023
Crude birth rate
The Health Department reports the 2023 citywide rate as unchanged from 2022. A longer series has not been read yet.
Latest year available for each country. Years differ between countries. Choose one to see its trend.