Fertility in Dominican Republic, 2024

Dominican Republic
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.22
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 Dominican Republic is projected at 2.22 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (123 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.5 years old. In total, 201,350 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.22
Births
201,350
Births per 1,000 people
17.6
Mean age of mothers
27.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.9%
Net reproduction rate
1.04
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
11,427,557
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
10-140.80.2%397
15-1950.211.3%23,936
20-24118.726.7%56,603
25-29122.727.6%55,925
30-3492.820.9%41,105
35-3947.010.6%18,755
40-4411.82.6%4,288
45-491.00.2%334
50-540.00.0%7