{"id": 1004796, "name": "Fertility rate, by age - Year: 1940", "unit": "births per women", "createdAt": "2024-12-30T13:04:11.000Z", "updatedAt": "2025-08-25T21:59:59.000Z", "coverage": "", "timespan": "12-55", "datasetId": 6838, "columnOrder": 0, "shortName": "asfr__year_as_dimension_1940", "catalogPath": "grapher/demography/2024-12-03/fertility_rate/fertility_rate_by_age#asfr__year_as_dimension_1940", "dimensions": {"years": {"values": [{"id": 12}, {"id": 13}, {"id": 14}, {"id": 15}, {"id": 16}, {"id": 17}, {"id": 18}, {"id": 19}, {"id": 20}, {"id": 21}, {"id": 22}, {"id": 23}, {"id": 24}, {"id": 25}, {"id": 26}, {"id": 27}, {"id": 28}, {"id": 29}, {"id": 30}, {"id": 31}, {"id": 32}, {"id": 33}, {"id": 34}, {"id": 35}, {"id": 36}, {"id": 37}, {"id": 38}, {"id": 39}, {"id": 40}, {"id": 41}, {"id": 42}, {"id": 43}, {"id": 44}, {"id": 45}, {"id": 46}, {"id": 47}, {"id": 48}, {"id": 49}, {"id": 50}, {"id": 51}, {"id": 52}, {"id": 53}, {"id": 54}, {"id": 55}]}, "entities": {"values": [{"id": 44, "name": "Canada", "code": "CAN"}, {"id": 161, "name": "Denmark", "code": "DNK"}, {"id": 278, "name": "England and Wales", "code": null}, {"id": 155, "name": "Finland", "code": "FIN"}, {"id": 95, "name": "Portugal", "code": "PRT"}, {"id": 9, "name": "Spain", "code": "ESP"}, {"id": 10, "name": "Sweden", "code": "SWE"}, {"id": 7, "name": "Switzerland", "code": "CHE"}, {"id": 13, "name": "United States", "code": "USA"}]}}, "descriptionShort": "The average number of children a woman would have at each age if she experienced the fertility rates of year 1940.", "descriptionProcessing": "The fertility data is constructed by combining data from multiple sources:\n\n- Before 1950: Historical estimates by Human Fertility Database (2024).\n\n- 1950-2023: Population records by the UN World Population Prospects (2024 revision).\n\nNote: Data for Northern Ireland, England and Wales, Scotland, East Germany and West Germany come entirely from the Human Fertility Database.", "type": "float", "dataChecksum": "13491644920945649225", "metadataChecksum": "5057393087157061775", "datasetName": "Fertility Rate (UN WPP; HFD)", "updatePeriodDays": 365, "datasetVersion": "2024-12-03", "nonRedistributable": false, "display": {"unit": "births per women", "numDecimalPlaces": 2}, "schemaVersion": 2, "processingLevel": "major", "presentation": {"attribution": "UN WPP (2024); HFD (2024)", "topicTagsLinks": ["Fertility Rate"]}, "descriptionKey": ["Shows fertility rates for each age group in a specific year.", "Useful for detailed analysis of fertility patterns by both age and year."], "origins": [{"id": 2061, "title": "Human Fertility Database", "description": "The HFD is entirely based on one and the same type of initial data - officially registered birth counts by calendar year, mother's age (and/or cohort) and (whenever possible) biological birth order. These data, together with total female population exposure from the Human Mortality Database (www.mortality.org) and parity-specific female population exposure from selected population censuses, population registers, or large-scale surveys, are further processed using a uniform set of methods. The major HFD output includes detailed data on births, unconditional and conditional fertility rates, cohort and period fertility tables as well as selected aggregate indicators such as total fertility rates, mean ages at childbearing, and parity progression ratios.\n\nFor each country, there are four blocks of data provided:\n\n- Summary Indicators\n- Age-Specific Data\n- Fertility Tables\n- Input Data\n\nMore details at https://www.humanfertility.org/Data/ExplanatoryNotes, and https://www.humanfertility.org/File/GetDocumentFree/Docs/methods.pdf.", "producer": "Human Fertility Database", "citationFull": "Human Fertility Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany) and Vienna Institute of Demography (Austria). Available at www.humanfertility.org (data downloaded on 2024-11-19).", "attributionShort": "HFD", "urlMain": "https://www.humanfertility.org/Home/Index", "urlDownload": "https://www.humanfertility.org/File/Download/Files/zip/HFD.zip", "dateAccessed": "2024-11-19", "datePublished": "2024-05-23", "license": {"url": "https://www.mortality.org/Data/UserAgreement", "name": "CC BY 4.0"}}, {"id": 6902, "titleSnapshot": "World Population Prospects, Fertility by single-age groups", "title": "World Population Prospects", "description": "World Population Prospects 2024 is the 28th edition of the official estimates and projections of the global population that have been published by the United Nations since 1951. The estimates are based on all available sources of data on population size and levels of fertility, mortality and international migration for 237 countries or areas. If you have questions about this dataset, please refer to [their FAQ](https://population.un.org/wpp/faqs). You can also explore [data sources](https://population.un.org/wpp/data-sources) for each country or visit [their main page](https://population.un.org/wpp/) for more details.", "producer": "United Nations", "citationFull": "United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division (2024). World Population Prospects 2024, Online Edition.", "attribution": "UN, World Population Prospects (2024)", "attributionShort": "UN WPP", "urlMain": "https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads/", "urlDownload": "https://population.un.org/wpp/assets/Excel%20Files/1_Indicator%20(Standard)/CSV_FILES/WPP2024_Fertility_by_Age1.csv.gz", "dateAccessed": "2024-07-11", "datePublished": "2024-07-11", "license": {"url": "https://population.un.org/wpp/downloads/", "name": "CC BY 3.0 IGO"}}]}