Total fertility rate of Finland 1800-2020

The fertility rate of a country is the average number of children that women from that country will have throughout their reproductive years. For most of the nineteenth century, Finland's fertility rate remained between 4.5 and five children per woman, with much fluctuation. From 1910 until 1930, Finland's fertility rate plummeted from 4.7 to 2.4 over this thirty year period. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Finland experienced a baby boom, where the fertility rate grew to 3.4 by 1950, before dropping again to 1.6 in 1975. Since 1975, the fertility rate of Finland has remained between 1.5 and 1.9, and is expected to reach it's lowest recorded figure ever in 2020, of just 1.5 children per woman.