Fertility in Bulgaria, 2024

Bulgaria
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.75
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 Bulgaria is projected at 1.75 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (102 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.1 years old. In total, 61,463 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.75
Births
61,463
Births per 1,000 people
9.1
Mean age of mothers
28.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
10.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.84
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.0
Population
6,757,688
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
10-141.70.5%291
15-1938.010.9%6,292
20-2473.621.2%11,420
25-29102.329.4%15,377
30-3481.623.5%16,296
35-3940.311.6%9,419
40-449.12.6%2,125
45-490.90.3%237
50-540.00.0%6