The Human Fertility Database

Data Availability

The table below shows the countries currently included in the HFD and the range of years for which data on all birth orders combined as well as order-specific data on period and cohort fertility (births, fertility rates and summary indicators) are available. Time periods covered by the period and cohort fertility tables are shown as well.

Please note that in the case of cohort fertility the summary indicators such as the cohort total fertility rate, mean age at birth, and parity progression ratios, are computed only for the birth cohorts that have completed or nearly completed childbearing (i.e., for those that reached age 50 or, for selected complementary computations, age 40, respectively). Therefore, the user may find that the above-mentioned summary indicators are available for shorter series of cohorts than those shown in the table.

Country	Births, unconditional rates, summary indicators				Fertility tables			Last updated
	No birth order		Birth order		Cohort	Period	Census- or register-based
	Period	Cohort	Period	Cohort
Austria	1951-2008	1896-1995	1984-2008	1929-1995	1969-1983	1991-2008	1991, 2001	2010-01-20
Czech Republic	1950-2008	1895-1995	1950-2008	1895-1995	1935-1983	1950-2008	1950, 1961, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2001	2010-01-20
Estonia	1959-2007	1904-1994	1959-2007	1904-1994	1944-1982	1979-2007	1979, 1989, 2000	2010-08-27
Netherlands	1950-2008	1895-1995	1950-2008	1895-1995	1935-1983	1980-2008	1995, ... , 2008	2010-02-09
Russia	1959-2008	1904-1995	1959-2008	1904-1995	1944-1982	1989-2008	1979, 1989	2010-02-08
Slovakia	1950-2008	1895-1995	1950-2008	1895-1995	1935-1983	1950-2008	1950, 1961, 1970, 1980, 1991, 2001	2010-01-21
Sweden	1891-2007	1836-1994	1970-2007	1915-1994	1955-1982	1970-2007	1970, ... , 2007	2010-01-25
Switzerland	1944-2007	1889-1994						2010-02-05
U.S.A.	1933-2006	1878-1993	1933-2006	1878-1993	1918-1981	1963-2006		2010-02-11

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