Fertility in Canada, 2025

Canada
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.33
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

The total fertility rate of Canada is projected at 1.33 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 (100 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.6 years old. In total, 361,103 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.33
Births
361,103
Births per 1,000 people
9.0
Mean age of mothers
31.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.64
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
40,126,723
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%36
15-194.31.6%4,583
20-2424.29.1%28,457
25-2970.526.4%94,024
30-3499.937.4%139,348
35-3955.220.7%76,840
40-4412.04.5%16,340
45-491.10.4%1,451
50-540.00.0%23