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Alarming! That’s why we decided to fight against population collapse providing data, analysis and ideas worldwide.

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2025 Fertility Rate (OECD countries)

Replacement level = 2.1 children per woman

🇰🇷 South Korea — 0.7
🇨🇱 Chile — 1.1
🇮🇹 Italy — 1.2
🇱🇹 Lithuania — 1.2
🇯🇵 Japan — 1.2
🇪🇸 Spain — 1.2
🇫🇮 Finland — 1.3
🇵🇱 Poland — 1.3
🇨🇷 Costa Rica — 1.3
🇦🇹 Austria — 1.3
🇨🇦 Canada — 1.3
🇬🇷 Greece — 1.3
🇱🇻 Latvia — 1.3
🇪🇪 Estonia — 1.4
🇧🇪 Belgium — 1.4
🇱🇺 Luxembourg — 1.4
🇳🇴 Norway — 1.4
🇸🇪 Sweden — 1.4
🇳🇱 Netherlands — 1.4
🇨🇭 Switzerland — 1.4
🇩🇪 Germany — 1.5
🇨🇿 Czech Republic — 1.5
🇭🇺 Hungary — 1.5
🇮🇸 Iceland — 1.5
🇵🇹 Portugal — 1.5
🇩🇰 Denmark — 1.5
🇬🇧 United Kingdom — 1.5
🇸🇰 Slovakia — 1.6
🇸🇮 Slovenia — 1.6
🇮🇪 Ireland — 1.6
🇨🇴 Colombia — 1.6
🇹🇷 Turkey — 1.6
🇺🇸 United States — 1.6
🇫🇷 France — 1.6
🇦🇺 Australia — 1.6
🇳🇿 New Zealand — 1.6
🇲🇽 Mexico — 1.9
🇮🇱 Israel — 2.8

📊 Every country listed is below replacement — except Israel.

Source: UN World Population Prospects (2024), Visual Capitalist

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@stats_feed Alarming! That’s why we decided to fight against population collapse providing data, analysis and ideas worldwide. Join our community!

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What are we doing to our youth?

Not having a partner at the right time is a key driver of unplanned childlessness.

And that time is almost certainly before 40, PhD Grads included.

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We now await the release of official 2025 data for these countries—and across the wider low-fertility world. In the meantime visit our Data Center for dashboards, analysis, and discussion covering over 40 nations and regions.

Until 2026!

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In our final post of 2025, we leave you with fertility dashboards for the Baltic nations, after covering more than 30 countries and regions throughout December—spanning North America, Europe, Turkey, Russia, East Asia and beyond.

The outlook for the Baltics is bleaker than in many other low-fertility European countries: if 2024 birthrates were frozen in time, little more than one in two women would ever become mothers. Yet among those who do, family size remains relatively high—around 2.3 children per mother in Latvia and Estonia, with Lithuania closer to two.

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Look out for our posts as the first official 2025 records become available in the weeks ahead.

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Four more countries. Four more birthrate dashboards.

The same underlying pattern, revealed for the first time using our microdemographic analysis.

Austria, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Croatia all converge on the same outcome: freeze 2024 birth patterns, and only around two in three women would ever become mothers.

Dashboards and data for 40+ countries and regions on our website.

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In Croatia, births would halve in around 63 years, around 2087—slightly later than in the other countries shown, as mothers here have marginally more children. The trajectory, however, remains the same.

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More nation dashboards will be posted later today.

To access our full Data Center for more dashboards and explanatory notes for over 40 nations and regions, visit the https://t.co/hjrTdZKq9g website

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As we await 2025 birthrate data, we close our December series today with dashboards from over a dozen nations—beginning with the Netherlands, Denmark, Belgium, Iceland, and Luxembourg.

The common thread is striking: freeze 2024 birthrates, and only around two in three women would ever become mothers. Yet in all but Luxembourg, those who do still have about 2.2–2.3 children each.

In short: the Netherlands is on track for births to halve roughly every 61 years...

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While Luxembourg is on track for births to halve roughly every 47 years.

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