Total fertility rate of Austria 1860-2020

The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. In 1860, Austria's fertility rate was just over five children per woman, and it then declined gradually until the end of the nineteenth century. Despite a slight increase following the First world War, Austria's fertility rate declined much faster over the next 35 years, falling below two births per woman in 1935. There was a slight increase during the Second World War, but it then fell below two again after the war. From 1950 until the late 1970s, Austria's fertility rate rose during the global baby boom, but since 1980 the number has remained between 1.4 and 1.7.