Fertility in Italy, 2025

Italy
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.21
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 Italy is projected at 1.21 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 (86 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 32.3 years old. In total, 382,523 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.21
Births
382,523
Births per 1,000 people
6.5
Mean age of mothers
32.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.59
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.9
Population
59,146,260
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%4,087
20-2420.58.4%30,028
25-2956.023.1%82,554
30-3486.035.5%135,390
35-3960.424.9%100,157
40-4415.16.2%27,000
45-491.60.6%3,259
50-540.00.0%41