Demographics of France - Fertility

Fertility

France has a high fertility rate by European standards; this rate has increased after reaching a historic low in the early 1990s.

  • Total fertility rate: 2.01 children born per woman for metropolitan France and the overseas departments (in 2010), 2.00 for metropolitan France alone (in 2010).
  • Mean age of women having their first birth: 29.9 years-old.

The total fertility rates (TFR) for metropolitan France yearwise is given below. (Sources:)

Year Births TFR
1960 819,951 2.74
1964 877,800 2.91
1970 850,381 2.48
1971 881,284 2.50
1972 877,506 2.42
1973 857,186 2.31
1974 801,218 2.11
1975 745,065 1.93
Year Births TFR
1980 800,376 1.95
1985 768,431 1.81
1990 762,407 1.78
1991 759,100 1.77
1992 743,658 1.73
1993 711,610 1.66
1994 710,993 1.66
1995 729,609 1.71
Year Births TFR
1996 734,338 1.73
1997 726,768 1.73
1998 738,080 1.76
1999 744,791 1.79
2000 774,782 1.87
2001 770,945 1.88
2002 761,630 1.86
2003 761,464 1.87
Year Births TFR
2004 767,816 1.90
2005 774,355 1.92
2006 796,896 1.98
2007 785,985 1.96
2008 796,000 1.99
2009 793,400 1.99
2010 797,000 2.00

The table below gives the average number of children according to the place of birth of women. An immigrant woman is a woman who was born outside of France and who did not have French citizenship at birth.

Average number of children in France
(1991–1998)		 Average number of children in country of origin
(1990–1999) and (2010)
All women living in metropolitan France 1.74
Women born in Metropolitan France 1.70
Immigrant women 2.16
Women born in overseas France 1.86
Immigrant women (country of birth)
Spain 1.52 1.23
Italy 1.60 1.24
Portugal 1.96 1.49
Other EU 1.66 1.44
Turkey 3.21 2.16
Other Europe 1.68 1.41
Algeria 2.57 1.78
Morocco 2.97 3.28
Tunisia 2.90 2.73
Other Africa 2.86 5.89
Asia (Mostly China) 1.77 2.85
The Americas and Oceania 2.00 2.54

In 2010, 27.3% of newborn in metropolitan France had at least one foreign-born parent and 23.9% had at least one parent born outside of Europe (parents born in overseas territories are considered as born in France).

The table below gives the number of children born in metropolitan France according to the place of birth of both parents.

Birth country of parents 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 % 2010
Both parents born in France 566 447 576 537 601 268 595 286 580 999 575 985 574 687 575 659 590 163 579 515 585 427 578 052 583 600 72.7%
One parent born in France, other foreign-born 101 511 98 687 101 498 102 013 103 930 106 677 110 258 114 090 119 159 119 587 121 845 125 058 129 025 16.1%
Father born in EU27, mother born in France 13 194 12 858 13 060 12 447 11 732 11 442 10 811 10 667 10 455 10 188 9 975 9 526 9 549 1.2%
Father not born in EU27, mother born in France 44 891 43 807 45 612 46 459 47 695 49 790 52 244 54 176 56 886 56 626 57 955 60 362 62 478 7.8%
Father born in France, Mother born in Eu27 13 020 12 647 12 411 11 881 11 439 11 119 10 930 10 827 10 794 10 575 10 562 10 585 10 418 1.3%
Father born in France, Mother not born in Eu27 30 406 29 375 30 415 31 226 33 064 34 326 36 273 38 420 41 024 42 198 43 353 44 585 46 580 5.8%
Both parents foreign-born 70 122 69 567 72 016 73 646 76 701 78 802 82 871 84 606 87 574 86 883 88 772 90 310 89 599 11.2%
Both parents born in Eu27 6 681 6 157 5 780 5 524 5 159 5 369 5 426 5 372 5 778 5 891 6 276 6 442 6 694 0.8%
Both parents not born in Eu27 60 281 60 636 63 299 65 406 68 788 70 552 74 537 76 348 78 700 78 020 79 405 80 641 79 698 9.9%
Father born in EU27, Mother not born in Eu27 1 188 1 047 1 116 1 035 1 038 1 075 1 150 1 100 1 256 1 190 1 226 1 268 1 258 0.2%
Father not born in EU27, Mother born in Eu27 1 972 1 727 1 821 1 681 1 716 1 806 1 758 1 786 1 840 1 782 1 865 1 959 1 949 0.2%
Total of newborns 738 080 744 791 774 782 770 945 761 630 761 464 767 816 774 355 796 896 785 985 796 044 793 420 802 224 100%

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