Fertility in Caribbean, 2017

Caribbean
2017
Total fertility rate: 2.13
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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   2017  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Caribbean was 2.13 children per woman in 2017 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (109 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.7 years old. In total, 703,269 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.13
Births
703,269
Births per 1,000 people
16.3
Mean age of mothers
27.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.99
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
43,059,730
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
10-141.90.4%3,246
15-1955.112.9%97,542
20-24108.725.5%188,976
25-29107.525.2%184,999
30-3484.219.7%131,762
35-3951.412.0%71,418
40-4415.83.7%22,329
45-492.10.5%2,900
50-540.10.0%88