Fertility in Costa Rica, 2024

Costa Rica
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.32
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

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-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Costa Rica is projected at 1.32 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (71 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.3 years old. In total, 51,253 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.32
Births
51,253
Births per 1,000 people
10.0
Mean age of mothers
28.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
8.6%
Net reproduction rate
0.64
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.6
Population
5,129,910
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
10-140.80.3%147
15-1924.89.4%4,399
20-2463.524.1%11,741
25-2970.726.8%13,902
30-3459.122.4%11,983
35-3934.913.2%7,170
40-449.63.7%1,836
45-490.40.2%75
50-540.00.0%0