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assessment of the TFR of Russians in Kazakhstan for 2024. In general, a decrease from 1.33 to 1.25. The TFR is declining especially quickly in the North-Eastern regions. In the largest city of Kazakhstan, Almaty, the TFR of Russians fell to 0.99

And the TFRs for Singapore for 2025 (2024 in brackets): Singapore 0.93 (0.97) Chinese 0.81 (0.83) Malays 1.48 (1.58) Indians 0.83 (0.91)

TFR by region in Chile, 2024

TFRs in Israel in 2025 by ethnicity/religion based on Q1 2025 data (2024 in brackets): Israel 2.83 (2.87) Jews and others 2.91 (2.92) Arabs 2.47 (2.58) Jews 3.04 (3.06) Moslems 2.62 (2.76) Christians 1.57 (1.58) Druze 1.69 (1.66) Not classified by religion 1.13 (1.13)

Chile's TFR in the last 7 years

Looks like Belarus finally resumed to post birth statistics.

Comparison of Nordic and East Asian trends in childlessness

Japan TFR by prefecture, 1925 and 1950

Countries like Japan and Taiwan with very strict expectations around parenthood (out-of-wedlock births are ostracized, women must sacrifice their career) have extremely high childlessness. In places like Scandinavia with more flexible norms, childlessness is much lower. 🧵

The geography of large families in the whole EU (+EFTA). Large families are common in Ireland, northern Finland, northern France and central Belgium. They are rarely found in northwestern Iberia, Bulgaria and most of Italy.

The geography of ultra-large families in the EU+EFTA. Most of them are found in regions with a large share of Laestadians (Finland), Roma people (Slovakia and Romania), Calvinists (Netherlands), Mennonites (Germany) or Haredi Jews (Antwerp region in Belgium).

Inspired by this, I looked into where in Japan large families are most prevalent. I found data on the number of 4th+ order births per 1,000 live births by prefecture.

Hungary with a massive 14% drop of the number of births in April. April was a bad month in many countries it seems.