{
  "study": {
    "slug": "regional-fertility-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Women Average Fewer Than 1.3 Children in Over a Third of EU Regions",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/regional-fertility-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Total fertility rate by region, 2024",
  "valueHeading": "Children per woman",
  "selection": "Three highest and three lowest of the 244 EU NUTS 2 regions. Eurostat publishes no EU aggregate in this regional table, so the ranking carries no reference row. Replacement level is about 2.1.",
  "decimals": 2,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "The three highest values, in French overseas departments, are flagged by Eurostat as provisional, as is every French region's. The EU rate of 1.34 comes from the national series rather than this table and is not drawn as a reference row.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Total fertility rate by NUTS 2 region",
    "code": "tgs00100",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "unit": "NR",
      "age": "TOTAL"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-10-04",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/tgs00100",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/tgs00100/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Mayotte (FR)",
      "value": 3.54,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "p"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Guyane (FR)",
      "value": 3.11,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "p"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "La Réunion (FR)",
      "value": 2.12,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": "p"
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Principado de Asturias (ES)",
      "value": 0.95,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Sardegna (IT)",
      "value": 0.91,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Canarias (ES)",
      "value": 0.82,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}