Additional Information. Average age of mother at childbirth in Italy , by region. The account requires an annual contract and will renew after one year to the regular list price.
Skip to main content. The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. In Germany in , the average woman of childbearing age would have 5. It remained around this number until the late s, when it then dropped to just under five, which was a long-term effect of the Napoleonic Period in Europe.
From this point until the end of the nineteenth century, Germany's fertility rate was rather sporadic, reaching it's lowest point in with an average of 4. From the beginning of the twentieth century until the end of the Second World War, Germany's fertility rate dropped from around 5 children per woman in , to 1.
The only time where the fertility rate increased was in the inter-war years. Like other countries heavily involved in the Second World War, Germany both East and West experienced a Baby Boom from the late s to the late s, however it then dropped to it's lowest point of just 1. In recent years, Germany's fertility rate has gradually been increasing again, and is expected to reach 1.
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