"Figure 2: Northern Ireland has the highest, and Scotland the lowest, TFR of the UK countries","" "Total fertility rate for constituent countries of UK, 1971 to 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. 2018 births data for Northern Ireland are not yet publicly available. 2. Please note that the figures within the chart were updated to include 2 decimal points on 28 October 2019. They were originally published with 1 decimal point. " "Unit","Total fertility rate" "","" "Year","England","Wales","Scotland","Northern Ireland" "1971","2.36","2.40","2.53","3.12" "1972","2.17","2.22","2.27","2.93" "1973","2.00","2.05","2.13","2.75" "1974","1.88","1.94","1.97","2.78" "1975","1.77","1.83","1.90","2.68" "1976","1.71","1.76","1.80","2.70" "1977","1.65","1.71","1.70","2.60" "1978","1.72","1.79","1.74","2.66" "1979","1.83","1.91","1.84","2.82" "1980","1.87","1.95","1.84","2.79" "1981","1.79","1.87","1.84","2.59" "1982","1.76","1.86","1.74","2.53" "1983","1.75","1.83","1.70","2.51" "1984","1.75","1.83","1.68","2.50" "1985","1.78","1.86","1.70","2.45" "1986","1.77","1.86","1.67","2.45" "1987","1.80","1.88","1.68","2.39" "1988","1.82","1.91","1.68","2.35" "1989","1.79","1.86","1.61","2.19" "1990","1.84","1.91","1.67","2.21" "1991","1.81","1.88","1.70","2.16" "1992","1.79","1.87","1.67","2.08" "1993","1.76","1.84","1.62","2.01" "1994","1.75","1.79","1.58","1.95" "1995","1.72","1.77","1.56","1.91" "1996","1.73","1.81","1.56","1.95" "1997","1.73","1.81","1.59","1.93" "1998","1.72","1.78","1.55","1.90" "1999","1.69","1.72","1.52","1.86" "2000","1.65","1.68","1.48","1.75" "2001","1.63","1.66","1.49","1.81" "2002","1.64","1.64","1.47","1.76" "2003","1.72","1.71","1.52","1.79" "2004","1.77","1.76","1.58","1.84" "2005","1.77","1.78","1.60","1.84" "2006","1.83","1.82","1.64","1.90" "2007","1.88","1.86","1.70","1.98" "2008","1.92","1.91","1.77","2.05" "2009","1.91","1.87","1.73","1.99" "2010","1.94","1.92","1.72","2.02" "2011","1.93","1.90","1.69","2.02" "2012","1.94","1.88","1.67","2.03" "2013","1.85","1.80","1.61","1.96" "2014","1.83","1.78","1.62","1.97" "2015","1.82","1.77","1.56","1.96" "2016","1.81","1.74","1.52","1.95" "2017","1.76","1.69","1.47","1.87" "2018","1.70","1.63","1.42",""