Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2016

Latin America and the Caribbean
2016
Total fertility rate: 2.01
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2016 1986, 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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-5 -1   2016  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Latin America and the Caribbean was 2.01 children per woman in 2016 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (105 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 27.1 years old. In total, 10,322,871 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.01
Births
10,322,871
Births per 1,000 people
16.5
Mean age of mothers
27.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.96
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.5
Population
625,922,644
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
10-142.60.6%67,057
15-1964.115.9%1,724,261
20-24105.226.1%2,807,550
25-2996.824.0%2,509,322
30-3476.418.9%1,894,353
35-3944.711.1%1,030,108
40-4412.73.2%267,239
45-491.20.3%22,716
50-540.00.0%235