Fertility in France, 2025

France
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.64
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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The total fertility rate of France is projected at 1.64 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 (115 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.8 years old. In total, 634,528 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.64
Births
634,528
Births per 1,000 people
9.5
Mean age of mothers
31.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.79
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
66,650,804
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%102
15-193.21.0%6,374
20-2430.49.3%61,154
25-2988.027.0%169,469
30-34115.035.3%214,961
35-3969.021.1%139,647
40-4419.25.9%39,798
45-491.50.5%3,023
50-540.00.0%0