Fertility in Iraq, 2024

Iraq
2024
Total fertility rate: 3.22
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

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-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Iraq is projected at 3.22 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 (172 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.6 years old. In total, 1,177,772 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.22
Births
1,177,772
Births per 1,000 people
25.6
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.51
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.7
Population
46,042,015
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
10-141.20.2%3,261
15-1957.38.9%133,769
20-24157.124.4%327,708
25-29171.726.6%324,830
30-34133.220.7%222,965
35-3985.413.2%119,141
40-4434.45.3%41,658
45-494.10.6%4,326
50-540.10.0%111