Fertility in Mauritius, 2025

Mauritius
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.21
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 Mauritius is projected at 1.21 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (72 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.4 years old. In total, 11,408 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.21
Births
11,408
Births per 1,000 people
9.0
Mean age of mothers
29.4
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.58
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.5
Population
1,268,280
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
10-140.50.2%18
15-1918.67.6%770
20-2442.217.3%1,945
25-2965.526.9%3,034
30-3471.829.4%3,575
35-3936.915.1%1,687
40-447.83.2%352
45-490.50.2%24
50-540.00.0%0