Fertility in More developed regions, 2009

More developed regions
2009
Total fertility rate: 1.69
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2009 1979, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of More developed regions was 1.69 children per woman in 2009 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (99 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.8 years old. In total, 14,134,804 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.69
Births
14,134,804
Births per 1,000 people
11.5
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
6.3%
Net reproduction rate
0.81
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.4
Population
1,233,191,445
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
10-140.30.1%10,115
15-1923.97.1%892,476
20-2471.421.1%2,921,522
25-2998.929.2%4,151,708
30-3490.726.8%3,828,610
35-3944.213.1%1,926,043
40-448.82.6%384,466
45-490.40.1%19,590
50-540.00.0%267