About this Dataset

Fertility Rate (Selected Gapminder, V12) (2017)

Data is that of version 12 of Gapminder, the latest version as of 2019. This is the full fertility rate dataset published by Gapminder.

Gapminder's sources and methodology if well-documented in its dataset at: https://www.gapminder.org/data/

It notes its data sources during three key periods of time:

1800 to 1950 (and in some cases also years after 1950): Gapminder v6 which were compiled and documented by Mattias Lindgren.
1950 to 2014: In most cases we use the latest UN estimates from World Population Prospects 2017 published in the file with Annually interpolated demographic indicators, called WPP2017_INT_F01_ANNUAL_DEMOGRAPHIC_INDICATORS.xlsx, accessed on September 2, 2017.
2015 – 2099: We use the UN forecast of future fertility rate in all countries, called median fertility variant.

Version 12 of the dataset extends back to the year 1800. Version 6 of Gapminder's fertility series includes data for a few countries further than 1800. We have included more historic data from Version 6 for Finland, the United Kingdom and Sweden. All data from 1800 onwards is from Version 12; data from pre-1800 is from Version 6.

There are significant uncertainties in data for many countries pre-1950. To develop full series back to 1800 for all countries, Gapminder combines published estimates within the academic literature and national statistics, with their own guesstimates and extrapolations for countries without published estimates. This series presents the selective Gapminder dataset: we have removed data points which were estimated by Gapminder with high uncertainty and instead only include those from published sources or the United Nations dataset.

We also publish the full dataset from Gapminder for users looking for a complete series. However, we should highlight that some of these estimates have a high degree of uncertainty. This dataset can be accessed here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fertility-rate-complete-gapminder

Tables

Fertility Rate

@owid.fertility_rate.owid_fertility_rate_1

63.06 kB
37,663 rows
3 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_fertility_rate_1 (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "fertility_rate_select_gapminder_v12_2017" FLOAT  -- Fertility Rate, Select Gapminder, V12, 2017
);

Fertility Rate 2

@owid.fertility_rate.owid_fertility_rate_2

156.22 kB
38,439 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_fertility_rate_2 (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "fertility_rate" FLOAT,
  "fertility_rate_hist" FLOAT
);

Fertility Rate 3

@owid.fertility_rate.owid_fertility_rate_3

156.22 kB
38,439 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_fertility_rate_3 (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "year" INTEGER,
  "fertility_rate" FLOAT,
  "fertility_rate_hist" FLOAT
);

Fertility Rate By Age 1

@owid.fertility_rate.owid_fertility_rate_by_age_1

809.79 kB
147,936 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_fertility_rate_by_age_1 (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "age" INTEGER,
  "year_as_dimension" INTEGER,
  "asfr" FLOAT
);

Fertility Rate By Age 2

@owid.fertility_rate.owid_fertility_rate_by_age_2

809.78 kB
147,936 rows
4 columns

CREATE TABLE owid_fertility_rate_by_age_2 (
  "country" VARCHAR,
  "age" INTEGER,
  "year_as_dimension" INTEGER,
  "asfr" FLOAT
);