Fertility in More developed regions, 2017

More developed regions
2017
Total fertility rate: 1.60
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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 1.60 children per woman in 2017 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 30-34 (96 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 29.9 years old. In total, 13,161,331 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.60
Births
13,161,331
Births per 1,000 people
10.3
Mean age of mothers
29.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.77
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.4
Population
1,273,176,417
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%5,625
15-1913.24.1%446,963
20-2455.317.2%1,994,336
25-2992.528.8%3,821,025
30-3496.029.9%4,123,916
35-3952.116.2%2,245,363
40-4411.43.6%491,325
45-490.70.2%32,329
50-540.00.0%409