Fertility in France, 2024

France
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.64
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 France is projected at 1.64 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 (115 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.7 years old. In total, 635,995 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.64
Births
635,995
Births per 1,000 people
9.6
Mean age of mothers
31.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.79
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
66,548,530
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%106
15-193.31.0%6,618
20-2431.39.6%61,538
25-2989.127.3%169,573
30-34114.535.1%217,975
35-3967.920.8%138,519
40-4418.55.7%38,858
45-491.40.4%2,813
50-540.00.0%0