Fertility in Italy, 2024

Italy
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.21
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 Italy is projected at 1.21 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 (85 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 32.3 years old. In total, 384,703 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.21
Births
384,703
Births per 1,000 people
6.5
Mean age of mothers
32.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.58
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.9
Population
59,342,867
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
10-140.00.0%7
15-192.91.2%4,029
20-2420.48.5%29,463
25-2955.823.1%82,386
30-3485.435.4%137,976
35-3959.924.9%99,862
40-4415.06.2%27,569
45-491.60.6%3,371
50-540.00.0%41