Fertility in Netherlands, 2024

Netherlands
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.43
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

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The total fertility rate of Netherlands is projected at 1.43 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (118 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.8 years old. In total, 171,524 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.43
Births
171,524
Births per 1,000 people
9.4
Mean age of mothers
31.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
0.5%
Net reproduction rate
0.69
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.3
Population
18,228,742
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
10-140.00.0%3
15-191.70.6%862
20-2418.36.4%10,477
25-2978.827.4%47,503
30-34118.341.1%72,373
35-3958.620.4%33,911
40-4411.03.8%6,000
45-490.70.3%390
50-540.00.0%3