Fertility in Mexico, 2024

Mexico
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.89
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Mexico is projected at 1.89 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 (104 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.8 years old. In total, 2,023,623 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.89
Births
2,023,623
Births per 1,000 people
15.5
Mean age of mothers
26.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
16.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.91
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.9
Population
130,861,007
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
10-140.80.2%4,651
15-1959.315.7%325,774
20-24104.427.6%574,549
25-2997.625.8%520,550
30-3470.218.5%372,101
35-3936.39.6%179,865
40-449.42.5%43,520
45-490.60.2%2,610
50-540.00.0%0