Total fertility rate of Iceland 1850-2020

The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. In the ninety years following 1850, Iceland's fertility rate dropped from 4.9 children per woman, to 2.8 in 1940. During this time the rate fluctuated, rising just before the turn of the century, and then falling in the first few decades of the 1900s. Between 1940 and 1960, Iceland's fertility rate increased to 4.17 during the worldwide baby boom, but from 1960 onwards, the rate has since dropped to it's lowest level ever. Despite some fluctuation in the 1990s and 2000s, it is predicted that Iceland's fertility rate will fall to just 1.8 children per woman.