Fertility in Iraq, 2025

Iraq
2025
Total fertility rate: 3.17
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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The total fertility rate of Iraq is projected at 3.17 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (170 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.6 years old. In total, 1,187,570 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
3.17
Births
1,187,570
Births per 1,000 people
25.3
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.49
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.6
Population
47,020,774
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%3,318
15-1956.28.8%134,988
20-24155.324.5%328,591
25-29169.826.7%328,031
30-34131.120.6%225,640
35-3983.713.2%120,743
40-4433.75.3%41,869
45-494.00.6%4,281
50-540.10.0%110