Ideal number of children for a family in France 2023

Published by Statista Research Department, Jul 4, 2024

According to a survey conducted in July 2023 in France, more than one third of French people without children, aged between 25 and 43, believed the ideal number of children a family should have was two, 20 percent thought the ideal number was just one, and only three percent believed it was ideal to have four or more children. On the other hand for 32 percent of those surveyed, it was ideal for a family to have no children at all. In 2020, 38.6 percent of French families had two children.

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Release date

January 2024

Region

France

Survey time period

July 17 to 23, 2023

Number of respondents

503 respondents

Age group

25-43 years

Special properties

People without children

Method of interview

Computer-assisted web interviews (CAWI)

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