Fertility in Colombia, 2015

Colombia
2015
Total fertility rate: 1.77
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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   2015  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Colombia was 1.77 children per woman in 2015 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (97 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.2 years old. In total, 693,457 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.77
Births
693,457
Births per 1,000 people
14.8
Mean age of mothers
26.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
20.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.85
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.5
Population
46,969,940
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
10-143.81.1%7,716
15-1969.819.7%144,880
20-2496.727.3%202,047
25-2980.322.6%154,778
30-3460.517.1%111,408
35-3933.89.5%57,139
40-449.02.5%14,125
45-490.90.3%1,362
50-540.00.0%0