Fertility in Colombia, 2021

Colombia
2021
Total fertility rate: 1.68
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2021 1991, 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   2021  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Colombia was 1.68 children per woman in 2021 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (93 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.4 years old. In total, 713,944 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.68
Births
713,944
Births per 1,000 people
13.9
Mean age of mothers
26.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.6%
Net reproduction rate
0.80
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.6
Population
51,188,173
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
10-143.31.0%6,152
15-1962.018.4%125,927
20-2492.527.4%202,979
25-2979.423.5%178,915
30-3456.816.8%118,138
35-3932.79.7%63,236
40-449.82.9%17,375
45-490.80.2%1,224
50-540.00.0%0