Fertility in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2025

Latin America and the Caribbean
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.78
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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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The total fertility rate of Latin America and the Caribbean is projected at 1.78 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (90 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 9,226,599 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.78
Births
9,226,599
Births per 1,000 people
13.8
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
13.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.85
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.4
Population
667,888,552
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
10-141.60.4%40,674
15-1949.313.8%1,264,803
20-2490.025.2%2,342,781
25-2988.124.7%2,317,824
30-3470.519.8%1,830,587
35-3943.212.1%1,087,435
40-4413.43.7%320,685
45-491.00.3%21,699
50-540.00.0%111