Fertility in Europe, 2024

Europe
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.40
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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The total fertility rate of Europe is projected at 1.40 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (88 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.6 years old. In total, 6,272,979 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.40
Births
6,272,979
Births per 1,000 people
8.4
Mean age of mothers
30.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.5%
Net reproduction rate
0.68
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.7
Population
745,083,824
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
10-140.10.0%2,222
15-198.12.9%158,635
20-2440.314.4%764,762
25-2979.728.5%1,608,172
30-3488.331.5%2,073,002
35-3950.117.9%1,316,065
40-4412.24.3%320,602
45-491.10.4%28,960
50-540.00.0%546