Jan M. Hoem

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Abstract
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.

Author's affiliation
Jan M. Hoem
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Germany

Keywords
fertility trends, Germany, impacts of family policies, institutional effects, Sweden

Word count (Main text)
3151

Updated Items
Minor corrections to Table 2 (German battery information) were made on March 10, 2006.

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