Fertility in Nicaragua, 2025

Nicaragua
2025
Total fertility rate: 2.18
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2025 1995, 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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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Nicaragua is projected at 2.18 children per woman in 2025 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 20-24 (116 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 26.0 years old. In total, 131,804 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.18
Births
131,804
Births per 1,000 people
18.8
Mean age of mothers
26.0
Births to mothers aged 15–19
22.7%
Net reproduction rate
1.05
Boys per 100 girls at birth
103.5
Population
7,007,502
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
10-145.41.2%1,789
15-1992.321.1%29,881
20-24116.526.7%35,814
25-29101.423.2%30,519
30-3470.216.1%20,521
35-3939.18.9%10,510
40-4410.82.5%2,574
45-490.90.2%192
50-540.00.0%0