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Society at a Glance 2024

OECD Social Indicators

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Society at a Glance 2024: OECD Social Indicators, the tenth edition of the biennial OECD overview of social indicators, addresses the growing demand for quantitative evidence on social well-being and its trends. The report features a special chapter on fertility trends which discusses evidence from recent OECD analysis on the effect of labour market outcomes, housing costs and different aspects of the family policy framework (e.g. parental leave, childcare, and financial supports) on fertility trends and highlights key policy challenges. This edition of Society at a Glance also includes a special section based on the 2022 OECD Risks that Matter Survey on people’s perceptions of social and economic risks and the extent to which they think governments address those risks effectively. Society at a Glance presents 25 social indicators, 5 each in chapters on General context, Self-sufficiency, Equity, Health, and Social cohesion. These indicators include data for 38 OECD member countries and, where available, accession and key partners countries (Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, Croatia, China, India, Indonesia, Peru, Romania, and South Africa) and another other G20 country (Saudi Arabia).

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Fertility trends across the OECD: Underlying drivers and the role for policy

Most OECD countries have experienced a marked decline in fertility rates over the years. The total fertility rate (TFR) has more than halved on average across the OECD, from 3.3 children per woman in 1960, to 1.5 in 2022. This decline will change the face of societies, communities and families and potentially have large effects on economic growth and prosperity. Therefore, policy would do well to understand what drives these changes, why adults have fewer children, or none at all, and what can be done to support adults to have the number of children they would like to have, at the time of their choosing.

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