Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2015

Latin America and the Caribbean
2015
Total fertility rate: 2.07
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 2.07 children per woman in 2015 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (108 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.0 years old. In total, 10,542,289 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.07
Births
10,542,289
Births per 1,000 people
17.0
Mean age of mothers
27.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.98
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.5
Population
620,042,609
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
10-142.70.7%72,519
15-1967.216.2%1,814,312
20-24107.826.1%2,877,107
25-2998.523.8%2,542,087
30-3478.018.9%1,918,959
35-3945.110.9%1,022,345
40-4413.23.2%271,585
45-491.20.3%23,110
50-540.00.0%253