Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2010

Latin America and the Caribbean
2010
Total fertility rate: 2.18
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2010 1980, 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 2.18 children per woman in 2010 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (116 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.8 years old. In total, 10,799,683 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.18
Births
10,799,683
Births per 1,000 people
18.3
Mean age of mothers
26.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
18.4%
Net reproduction rate
1.03
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.5
Population
588,907,843
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
10-143.10.7%85,247
15-1973.316.8%1,986,879
20-24115.926.5%3,043,604
25-29104.724.0%2,619,313
30-3480.018.3%1,840,337
35-3944.910.3%940,428
40-4413.43.1%256,802
45-491.50.3%26,604
50-540.00.0%462