Fertility in Central America, 2025

Central America
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.95
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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The total fertility rate of Central America is projected at 1.95 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (106 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.9 years old. In total, 2,977,814 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.95
Births
2,977,814
Births per 1,000 people
16.1
Mean age of mothers
26.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.93
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
185,160,699
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%10,922
15-1961.215.7%484,187
20-24106.427.3%842,064
25-2998.425.2%757,070
30-3471.718.4%537,941
35-3939.110.0%271,402
40-4410.92.8%69,587
45-490.80.2%4,630
50-540.00.0%12