Fertility in Northern America, 2024

Northern America
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.59
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 Northern America is projected at 1.59 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 (96 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.1 years old. In total, 4,016,831 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.59
Births
4,016,831
Births per 1,000 people
10.4
Mean age of mothers
30.1
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.5%
Net reproduction rate
0.77
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
385,295,105
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%1,773
15-1911.73.7%141,216
20-2454.417.0%653,756
25-2988.827.8%1,084,074
30-3496.030.1%1,263,063
35-3954.617.1%705,257
40-4412.43.9%155,660
45-491.00.3%11,851
50-540.00.0%178