Fertility in El Salvador, 2025

El Salvador
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.75
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

The total fertility rate of El Salvador is projected at 1.75 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (91 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.2 years old. In total, 97,874 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.75
Births
97,874
Births per 1,000 people
15.4
Mean age of mothers
27.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.5%
Net reproduction rate
0.84
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.8
Population
6,365,503
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
10-141.60.5%429
15-1952.615.0%14,176
20-2491.125.9%25,864
25-2986.224.5%26,834
30-3469.819.9%19,437
35-3938.911.1%8,831
40-4410.53.0%2,159
45-490.70.2%146
50-540.00.0%0