Fertility in Canada, 1990

Canada
1990
Total fertility rate: 1.70
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1990 1960, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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-5 -1   1990  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Canada was 1.70 children per woman in 1990 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (122 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.8 years old. In total, 402,979 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.70
Births
402,979
Births per 1,000 people
14.5
Mean age of mothers
27.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
5.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.81
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.4
Population
27,789,443
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
10-140.30.1%315
15-1925.47.4%23,860
20-2479.523.3%83,457
25-29121.935.7%155,482
30-3482.624.2%104,061
35-3927.88.1%31,755
40-443.91.1%3,963
45-490.10.0%88
50-540.00.0%0