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Estimated number of children a woman bears in her lifetime. Higher means more.
Source: MHLW — Vital Statistics
Replay how all 47 prefectures reordered over 40 years of records.
Estimated number of children a woman bears in her lifetime. Higher means more.
▲ The top 5 prefectures are tinted sky, ▼ the bottom 5 amber — just enough colour to follow the two ends of the “desirable direction.”
To see the same metric on the map, pick it from the map on the home page.