Focus on a World Map of Fertility
Use the FRED map below to compare the fertility rate across nations. Countries with a fertility rate below 2.1 either add population with immigration or experience population loss. Learn more about the topic with this FRED Blog Reading Q&A
From the FRED Blog
The post “The trend in teenage fertility” uses data from the World Bank to compare adolescent fertility rates in the United States, Italy, China, Ecuador, and the Republic of Congo.
Quiz Yourself on Fertility and Economic Growth
Q1. Hover the mouse pointer over the 1963 date on the FRED graph to read the data. At that time, what was the average number of children a woman in China had during her lifetime?
Q2. As of 2020, which of the four countries shown in the graph recorded the lowest fertility rate?
Read this FRED Blog post to learn more about those data.
Q1. The FRED graph shows the change in the size of the working age population in Canada, the United States, and Japan. Between January 1995 and December 2022, in which country did the size of the working age population shrink?
Read this FRED Blog post to learn how the graph was created.
Q1. The FRED graph shows the real hourly wage in the United Kingdom and population growth both in England and in the UK. Compare the timing of economic and population growth. Which one happened first?
Read this FRED Blog post to learn more about those data.
You can share these graphs with your students using this dashboard. To customize this dashboard, just click the “Save to My Account” button at the top of the dashboard.
