Japan vs Spain: Fertility rate: births per woman

Japan
1.21 live births per woman
in 2023
Spain
1.21 live births per woman
in 2023
Japan rank
216th
Spain rank
214th

Fertility rate: births per woman over time

  • Japan
  • Spain
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How they compare

Spain currently reports 1.21 live births per woman against 1.21 live births per woman in Japan, a difference of 0.005 live births per woman.

The two have swapped places 5 times across 77 shared years of data; in 1947 it was Japan ahead.

Globally, Japan ranks 216th and Spain ranks 214th of 236 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Fertility rate: births per woman
Unit
live births per woman
Source
Human Fertility Database (2025); UN, World Population Prospects (2024) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
236 places, 17,683 data points, 1891–2023
Last refreshed

The average number of live births a hypothetical cohort of women would have at the end of their reproductive period if they were subject during their whole lives to the fertility rates of a given period and if they were not subject to mortality.