Fertility in Denmark, 2025

Denmark
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.52
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

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Denmark is projected at 1.52 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (118 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.8 years old. In total, 59,225 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.52
Births
59,225
Births per 1,000 people
9.9
Mean age of mothers
31.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
0.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.74
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.6
Population
6,002,507
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
10-140.00.0%1
15-191.00.3%171
20-2419.86.5%3,570
25-2992.530.3%18,192
30-34118.038.6%23,864
35-3960.219.7%11,038
40-4413.14.3%2,185
45-491.10.4%199
50-540.00.0%3