Table # 11b
Lowest Total Fertility Rates (TFR)

TFR is the average number of children a woman would have assuming that current age- specific birth rates remain constant throughout her childbearing years.
  1993 1998 2000 2003 2006
1 Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong Hong Kong
Macau		 Macau
1.2 1.1 1.0 0.9 0.9
2 Spain
San Marino
Italy 		Latvia
Bulgaria
Czech Rep.
Russia
Italy
Spain 		Czech Rep.
Bulgaria		 Ukraine Hong Kong
1.3 1.2 1.1 1.1 1.0
3

Portugal
Greece
Liechtenstein
Germany
Macau

      South Korea
Taiwan

1.4

    

 

1.1
4 Japan        

1.5

    

 

  
U.S.A. 2.0 2.0 2.1 2.0 2.0

Source: Population Reference Bureau Data Sheets:
1993, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006

Chart created by Russ Long