Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the HFD team established a new data resource: Short-Term Fertility Fluctuations (STFF) data series. The STFF series complements the HFD by providing up-to-date data on live births by month for selected countries.

STFF data are published under CC BY 4.0 license.

For citing STFF data, please follow the HFD data citation guidelines.

STFF data can also be explored using our online STFF visualization toolkit.

Here you can download the following data and documentations:

  • STFF Metadata: information about country-specific data and data sources.
  • STFF Methodological Note: description of this data project, including data collection, data processing, and methodology.
  • Crude birth counts and TFR (xlsx or pooled csv): monthly counts of live births and monthly and annual TFRs.

 
Crude indicators do not allow direct comparison across countries and over time as they are affected by seasonality in childbearing. To provide comparable indicators, we publish seasonally and calendar adjusted data.

  • Seasonally- and calendar-adjusted data (xlsx or pooled csv): monthly counts of live births and monthly TFRs for selected countries.
  • Original data (country-specific csv files in one zip file): original birth counts in standardized format.

 
Note: Data on monthly TFR are preliminary. We are still working on the methodology and may revise it soon.


Data availability

Last update: 19-12-2022
Country Crude data Seasonally- and calendar-adjusted data
Austria 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Belgium 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Bulgaria 01/2000–12/2021 01/2012–12/2021
Canada 01/2000–12/2021 -
Canada: Quebec 01/2010–09/2022 -
Chile 01/2000–12/2021 -
Croatia 01/2000–09/2022 -
Czechia 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Denmark 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Estonia 01/2000–10/2022 -
Finland 01/2000–10/2022 01/2012–10/2022
France 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Germany 01/2000–08/2022 01/2012–08/2022
Greece 01/2000–09/2021 -
Greenland 01/2000–09/2022 -
Hungary 01/2000–10/2022 01/2012–10/2022
Iceland 01/2000–12/2021 -
Ireland 01/2005–12/2021 01/2012–12/2021
Israel 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Italy 01/2000–08/2022 01/2012–08/2022
Japan 01/2000–06/2022 01/2012–06/2022
Latvia 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Lithuania 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Luxemboug 01/2000–12/2021 -
Netherlands 01/2000–10/2022 01/2012–10/2022
New Zealand 01/2000–03/2022 -
Norway 01/2000–12/2021 01/2012–12/2021
Poland 01/2000–12/2021 -
Portugal 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Republic of Korea 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Romania 01/2000–09/2022 -
Russia 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Serbia 01/2000–10/2022 -
Singapore 01/2000–09/2022 -
Slovakia 01/2000–08/2022 -
Slovenia 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Spain 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Sweden 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Switzerland 01/2000–12/2021 01/2012–12/2021
Taiwan 01/2000–06/2022 -
UK: England & Wales 01/2000–12/2021 01/2012–12/2021
UK: Northern Ireland 01/2006–08/2022 -
UK: Scotland 01/2000–09/2022 01/2012–09/2022
Ukraine 01/2000–01/2022 -
USA 01/2000–01/2022 01/2012–06/2022
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