Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1990

Latin America and the Caribbean
1990
Total fertility rate: 3.24
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
1990 1960, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Latin America and the Caribbean was 3.24 children per woman in 1990 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (176 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.5 years old. In total, 11,999,210 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
3.24
Births
11,999,210
Births per 1,000 people
27.2
Mean age of mothers
27.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.47
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.5
Population
441,884,656
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
10-143.00.5%75,876
15-1989.113.7%2,044,558
20-24176.427.2%3,659,177
25-29160.224.7%3,014,080
30-34115.117.7%1,863,910
35-3971.411.0%973,201
40-4429.14.5%322,572
45-495.00.8%44,286
50-540.20.0%1,524