The Human Fertility Database

Downloading the HFD in zipped data files

To facilitate rapid downloads of large amounts of data, the Human Fertility Database has been organized into zip data files. Two series of files are offered for different purposes.

For users who want to obtain all available data for an individual country or for all countries, the zip data files labeled "By country" are recommended.

The file organization follows their internal organization in the HFD, and all publicly-available HFD data files are included in this set.

For users who only want information of a given data type (e.g., birth counts) for all countries, zip files "By data type" are recommended.

Data by type

Data type	Link to zip file
Births	births (2492Kb)
Female exposure	exposure (924Kb)
Age-specific fertility rate	asfr (1199Kb)
Mean age at birth	mab (23Kb)
Total fertility rate	tfr (23Kb)
Cumulative fertility rates	cfr (220Kb)
Parity progression ratios	ppr (3Kb)
Fertility tables	ftables (1640Kb)
Population exposure by parity	parityexp (370Kb)
Conditional age-specific fertility rates	casfr (208Kb)
Table mean age at birth	pmab (7Kb)
Summary index of period fertility	patfr (7Kb)
All types of HFD data	HFD (7103Kb)

Data by country

Country	Link to zip file
Austria	AUT (1Kb)
Czech Republic	CZE (1Kb)
Estonia	EST (1Kb)
Netherlands	NLD (1Kb)
Russia	RUS (1Kb)
Slovakia	SVK (1Kb)
Sweden	SWE (1Kb)
Switzerland	CHE (1Kb)
U.S.A.	USA (1Kb)