Fertility in Belgium, 2025

Belgium
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.39
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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 1.39 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (105 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.2 years old. In total, 101,192 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.39
Births
101,192
Births per 1,000 people
8.6
Mean age of mothers
31.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.67
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
11,758,603
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
15-193.41.2%1,150
20-2425.29.1%8,256
25-2985.730.8%29,617
30-34104.837.6%39,497
35-3947.016.9%18,016
40-4410.93.9%4,158
45-491.20.4%468
50-540.00.0%18