Fertility in Central America, 2024

Central America
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.97
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Central America is projected at 1.97 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (108 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.9 years old. In total, 2,999,178 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.97
Births
2,999,178
Births per 1,000 people
16.4
Mean age of mothers
26.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.94
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
183,409,960
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
10-141.40.4%11,224
15-1962.115.8%491,289
20-24107.627.3%852,558
25-2999.325.2%761,855
30-3472.418.4%538,564
35-3939.410.0%269,380
40-4411.02.8%69,523
45-490.80.2%4,763
50-540.00.0%17