TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hoem, Jan M.
T1  - Why does Sweden have such high fertility?
Y1  - 2005/11/24
JF  - Demographic Research
JO  - Demographic Research
SN  - 1435-9871
SP  - 559
EP  - 572
DO  - 10.4054/DemRes.2005.13.22
VL  - 13
IS  - 22
UR  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/22/
L1  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/22/13-22.pdf
L2  - https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol13/22/13-22.pdf
N2  - By current European standards, Sweden has had a relatively high fertility in recent decades. During the 1980s and 1990s, the annual Total Fertility Rate (TFR) for Sweden undu­lated consid­erably around a level just under 1.8, which is a bit lower than the corresponding level in France and well above the level in West Germany. (In 2004 the Swedish TFR reached 1.76 on an upward trend.) The Swedish com­pleted Cohort Fertility Rate (CFR) was rather constant at 2 for the cohorts that produced children in the same period; for France it stayed around 2.1 while the West-German CFR was lower and de­clined regularly to around 1.6. In this presentation, I describe the back­ground for these develop­ments and explain the unique Swedish undulations.

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