Fertility in New Zealand, 2024

New Zealand
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.66
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

Year

-5 -1   2024  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of New Zealand is projected at 1.66 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 (108 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.7 years old. In total, 59,121 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.66
Births
59,121
Births per 1,000 people
11.3
Mean age of mothers
30.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
2.8%
Net reproduction rate
0.80
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.3
Population
5,213,944
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
10-140.10.0%11
15-1910.33.1%1,643
20-2447.814.3%7,575
25-2987.626.3%14,771
30-34107.632.3%20,740
35-3964.319.3%11,827
40-4414.44.3%2,397
45-491.00.3%157
50-540.00.0%0