Fertility in More developed regions, 2015

More developed regions
2015
Total fertility rate: 1.66
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2015 1985, 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 More developed regions was 1.66 children per woman in 2015 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 30-34 (97 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.7 years old. In total, 13,685,909 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.66
Births
13,685,909
Births per 1,000 people
10.8
Mean age of mothers
29.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.9%
Net reproduction rate
0.80
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
1,262,289,100
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
10-140.20.1%6,618
15-1915.64.7%527,007
20-2460.318.1%2,265,124
25-2996.929.1%4,057,600
30-3497.029.2%4,142,716
35-3951.215.4%2,188,869
40-4410.83.2%469,198
45-490.70.2%28,395
50-540.00.0%357