Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2024

Latin America and the Caribbean
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.80
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2024 1994, 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   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Latin America and the Caribbean is projected at 1.80 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (91 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 9,307,645 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.80
Births
9,307,645
Births per 1,000 people
14.0
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.86
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
663,466,072
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
10-141.70.5%42,329
15-1950.314.0%1,296,011
20-2491.025.3%2,384,319
25-2988.824.6%2,336,433
30-3470.819.7%1,832,364
35-3943.212.0%1,078,009
40-4413.33.7%316,287
45-491.00.3%21,755
50-540.00.0%119