1. FertilityPortugal

   Portugal: fertility has been rising since 2014, from 1.23 to 1.41 children per woman

   Before 2014 it barely changed; since then it has risen by about 0.02 a year. Latest data: 2024.

   Source: UN World Population Prospects 1998–2024; national statisticsOpen on the chart →

More findings

• Portugal: people live longer than in the US
• Japan and Portugal: women born in 1980 had almost the same number of children, but 28% and 11% stayed childless
• Portugal: a hectare of farmland costs as much as 311 years of renting it
• Switzerland and Italy: 19% and 65% of adults read no book in a year; adult literacy scores 266 and 246
• Portugal: 1.9 times as many people aged 65+ as children under 15
• Portugal: more deaths than births for over 10 years in a row

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