Fertility in Belgium, 2024

Belgium
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.38
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
Total fertility rate, 1950–2100 · click to pick a year

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The total fertility rate of Belgium is projected at 1.38 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (104 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.1 years old. In total, 101,368 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.38
Births
101,368
Births per 1,000 people
8.6
Mean age of mothers
31.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.67
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
11,738,763
The net reproduction rate counts only daughters who survive to their mothers' age: below 1, each generation of women is smaller than the one before.
Mother's ageBirths per 1,000 womenShare of total fertilityBirths
10-140.00.0%13
15-193.51.3%1,161
20-2426.09.4%8,387
25-2986.231.1%30,032
30-34103.637.4%39,757
35-3946.016.6%17,528
40-4410.53.8%4,044
45-491.20.4%427
50-540.00.0%17