Fertility in Mexico, 2008

Mexico
2008
Total fertility rate: 2.39
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 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

Year

-5 -1   2008  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Mexico was 2.39 children per woman in 2008 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 20-24 (135 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 26.8 years old. In total, 2,297,950 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.39
Births
2,297,950
Births per 1,000 people
20.8
Mean age of mothers
26.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
17.7%
Net reproduction rate
1.14
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.9
Population
110,374,288
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
10-141.70.4%9,300
15-1974.615.6%407,434
20-24134.628.1%683,788
25-29120.825.2%574,659
30-3487.718.3%389,686
35-3945.39.5%184,290
40-4412.32.6%43,725
45-491.60.3%4,956
50-540.00.0%109