Canada

Warning: There are some problems in age distribution of births for 1928-1940. For more details, see the Background and Documentation file.

Summary Indicators

Summary indicators of fertility level and timing

Period summary indicators

Last update: 28.05.2025
All birth orders combined By birth order

Total number of live births

1921-2023 1944-2023

Crude birth rate

1921-2023 1944-2023

Total fertility rate

1921-2023 1944-2023

Mean age at birth

1921-2023 1944-2023

Standard deviation in mean age at birth

1921-2023 1944-2023

Cohort summary indicators

Last update: 28.05.2025
All birth orders combined By birth order

Completed cohort fertility

1906-1983 1929-1983

Parity progression ratios

-

1929-1973

Mean age at birth

1906-1983 1929-1983

Standard deviation in mean age at birth

1906-1983 1929-1983

Other synthetic indicators

Last update: 28.05.2025
All birth orders combined By birth order

Tempo-adjusted TFR

1945-2022 1945-2022

Age-Specific Data

Age-specific counts, unconditional rates, cumulative rates, female population exposures

Birth counts, population exposures, and rates: period

Last update: 28.05.2025
All birth orders combined By birth order
year, age, cohort year, age year, cohort year, age, cohort year, age year, cohort

Birth counts

1921-2023 1921-2023 1921-2023 1944-2023 1944-2023 1944-2023

Female population exposure

1921-2023 1921-2023 1921-2023

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-

-

Age-specific fertility rates

1921-2023 1921-2023 1921-2023 1944-2023 1944-2023 1944-2023

Cumulative fertility rates

-

1921-2023 1921-2023

-

1944-2023 1944-2023

Birth counts, population exposures, and rates: cohort

Last update: 28.05.2025
All birth orders combined By birth order

Birth counts

1866-2010 1889-2010

Female population exposure

1866-2010

-

Age-specific fertility rates

1866-2010 1889-2010

Cumulative fertility rates

1906-2010 1929-2010

Fertility Tables

Increment-decrement tables, conditional age-specific rates, exposures, PATFR

Period fertility tables

Last update: 28.05.2025
HFD parity estimates Census- or register-based parity estimates

Fertility tables

1974-2023 1991

Female population exposure by parity

1974-2023 1991

Conditional age-specific fertility rates

1974-2023 1991

Parity- and age-adjusted TFR (PATFR)

1974-2023 1991

Table mean ages at birth

1974-2023 1991

Cohort fertility tables

Last update: 28.05.2025
HFD parity estimates

Fertility tables

1929-1998

Input Data

Raw data on births and population used in computations

Input data

Last update: 28.05.2025
Years

Births

1921-2023

Births by month

1920-2023

Women by age and parity

1971, 1981, 1991

Population size and deaths

Human Mortality Database

Notes

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References

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Lexis maps

Last update: 28.05.2025
Map

Births

PDF

Population size

PNG

Death counts

PNG
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