Fertility in More developed regions, 2018

More developed regions
2018
Total fertility rate: 1.57
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2018 1988, 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 1.57 children per woman in 2018 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 30-34 (95 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.0 years old. In total, 12,845,131 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.57
Births
12,845,131
Births per 1,000 people
10.1
Mean age of mothers
30.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.76
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.3
Population
1,277,976,168
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
10-140.20.0%5,306
15-1912.23.9%412,217
20-2452.816.8%1,882,909
25-2990.028.6%3,663,272
30-3495.030.2%4,088,575
35-3952.116.6%2,256,300
40-4411.73.7%501,867
45-490.80.2%34,229
50-540.00.0%439