# Total fertility rate: Sweden

> Total fertility rate in Sweden was 1.42 children per woman (2025).

## Facts

| | |
|---|---|
| Latest value | 1.42 children per woman |
| Period | 2025 (2025) |
| Change vs a year earlier | -0.7 % |
| Frequency | year |

## Definition

Average number of children a woman would have if the year's birth rates stayed the same throughout her life.

## Recent periods

| Period | children per woman |
|---|---:|
| 2025 | 1.42 |
| 2024 | 1.43 |
| 2023 | 1.45 |
| 2022 | 1.52 |
| 2021 | 1.67 |
| 2020 | 1.66 |
| 2019 | 1.70 |
| 2018 | 1.75 |
| 2017 | 1.78 |
| 2016 | 1.85 |
| 2015 | 1.85 |
| 2014 | 1.88 |

## Checks

Status: verified, 2026-10-31
- ok: range: latest 2025 = 1.42, allowed 1..2.5
- ok: fresh: latest 2025 ends 304 days ago, max 600

## Source and use

Data: Statistics Sweden (SCB), table TAB4805, processed by SwedenMetrics.

Data licence: CC0. Feel free to cite with a link to the page.

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