Turkey: lower fertility than France
children per woman, 2025
Now 1.42 children per woman, against 1.56 in France. In 1950: 6.47 against 2.97. It fell below France in 2020.
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The total fertility rate: how many children a woman would have on average at the age-specific birth rates of the year.
Blue is the country of the headline, orange the one it is compared with; one scale. The ring marks where the lines crossed; the gap after it is shaded. The large numbers are the latest year both share.
- Turkey: Total fertility rate children per woman
6.47 (1950) → 1.42 (2025)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → TurkStat (TÜİK), Birth Statistics 2025 (released 21 May 2026), table 'Basic fertility indicators, 2001-2025'
- France: Total fertility rate children per woman
2.97 (1950) → 1.56 (2025)
UN DESA, World Population Prospects 2024 → INSEE, Les naissances en 2025 (Insee Resultats, 6 July 2026); TFR: Insee Premiere No. 2087 (13 Jan 2026)
Well-known countries against every country of sufficient size. An overtaking counts if the country was well behind at the start, ahead in no more than a fifth of the years before it, and it lasts to the latest shared year (at least two or three years in a row). A short dip of up to two years does not end a lead and is named. At most three overtakings per well-known country, and each country in at most one card of a kind.
UN estimates and national statistics for recent years where published. The rate of a year also moves when births are put off to later ages. Where statistics print one decimal, the lead must be at least 0.05.
A question for this picture
What changed faster: incomes, cities, or the idea of how many children is “normal”?