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Birth Gauge
@BirthGauge
Tracking the global fertility decline
Joined September 2013
- In 2024, the share of births to foreign-born women in Canada crossed the 40% mark for the first time and climbed from 39.3% in 2023 to 42.3% in 2024. While births to Canadian born women declined by 1.4%, births to immigrants climbed by 11.7%.
- Argentina has now released the age structure of its Census. All of my followers already know about the massive fertility decline after 2015, but the age pyramid shows it in another way. The country still has some time, as the biggest cohorts are between 7 and 45 years old.
- We are now halfway through 2025 and it's time for the monthly birth update. For the overwhelming number of countries that have provided data so far, 2025 will bring yet another significant decline of the birth rate.
- Some fun with the newly released data of the American Community Survey 2021. Fertility rate by language spoken at home: Yiddish 6.6 kids per woman Pennsylvania German 6.2 Somali 5.2 Spanish 2.1 English 1.7 Japanese 1.4 Chinese 1.3 Persian 1.2 Korean 1.2
- To celebrate World Population Day, here's the most up to date population pyramid of humanity, based on available data. This year, the TFR of the World will be around 2.16 children per woman and thus below replacement level (2.17) for the fist time in modern history.
- New monthly birth update is out! Turns out 2025 will bring an even steeper decline of the number of births than 2024 with many countries now reporting double-digit declines.
- New monthly birth update. There isn't much else to say but there being a lot of red (even more than in 2024 at this point). Many countries will record the lowest TFR ever recorded this year (again).
- Morocco is now the latest addition to the list of countries with below-replacement-level-fertility.Replying to @BirthGaugeTfr Morocco according to the 2024 census: 1,97 Source: hcp.ma/file/242663/
- Net-migration year ending June 2023 (rate per 1000 in brackets): USA +1,138,989 (+3.4) Canada +1,131,181 (+28.6) UK +672,000 (+10.0) Australia +518,087 (+19.7) NZ +101,518 (+19.6) Canada now has the same absolute level of immigration as the US.
- TFRs (children per woman) in the largest German cities in 1933: Germany 1.67 Berlin 0.84 Hamburg 1.08 Cologne 1.23 Munich 0.92 Leipzig 1.04 Essen 1.53 Dresden 0.90 Breslau 1.17 Frakfurt 0.93 Dortmund 1.46
- It is becoming ever more certain that the TFR of Thailand will drop below 1.0 kids per woman this year.Replying to @BirthGaugeThailand Births May: 2023-43134 2024- 38249(-11,3%) Jan-May (-9,47%)
