Fertility in Mauritius, 2024

Mauritius
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.23
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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The total fertility rate of Mauritius is projected at 1.23 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (71 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.3 years old. In total, 11,600 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.23
Births
11,600
Births per 1,000 people
9.1
Mean age of mothers
29.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
7.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.59
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.5
Population
1,271,169
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
10-140.60.2%19
15-1919.27.8%830
20-2443.817.8%2,027
25-2966.827.2%3,156
30-3471.228.9%3,574
35-3936.214.7%1,605
40-447.83.2%364
45-490.50.2%24
50-540.00.0%0