Fertility in Colombia, 2024

Colombia
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.63
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 Colombia is projected at 1.63 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 (88 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.6 years old. In total, 700,784 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.63
Births
700,784
Births per 1,000 people
13.3
Mean age of mothers
26.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.78
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.6
Population
52,886,364
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
10-143.11.0%5,588
15-1958.417.8%113,614
20-2487.826.8%188,606
25-2978.724.0%179,905
30-3456.917.4%127,761
35-3932.49.9%65,637
40-449.83.0%18,472
45-490.70.2%1,200
50-540.00.0%0