Table 1 Birth rate and gross reproduction rate in Europe, 1973

 Bulgaria

16.2

2.04 (72)

 Czechoslovakia

18.8

2.23 (72)

 Eastern Germany

10.6

1.58

 Hungary

15.0

1.95

 Poland

17.9

2.26

 Rumania

18.2

2.44

 Soviet Union

17.6

2. 47 (72)

 Denmark

14.3

2.04 (71)

 England and Wales

13.8

2.20 (72)

 Finland

12.2

1.83 (70)

 Ireland

22.5

3.84 (70)

 Norway

15.5

2.39 (72)

 Scotland

14.3

2.27 (72)

 Sweden

13.5

1.93 (72)

 Austria

12.9

1.93

 Belgium

13.3

2.09 (72)

 France

16.5

2.42 (72)

 Netherlands

14.5

2.17 (72)

 Switzerland

13.6

2.02 (71)

 Western Germany

10.3

1.71 (72)

 Albania

33.3 (71)

 Greece

15.3

2.21 (70)

 Italy

16.0

2.37 (71)

 Portugal

20.1

2.70 (71)

 Spain

19.2

2.84 (70)

 Yugoslavia

18.0

2.35 (72)