Fertility in Northern America, 2025

Northern America
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.59
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Northern America is projected at 1.59 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 30-34 (97 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 30.2 years old. In total, 4,026,172 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.59
Births
4,026,172
Births per 1,000 people
10.4
Mean age of mothers
30.2
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.77
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
387,528,403
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%1,629
15-1911.23.5%135,808
20-2453.116.6%649,919
25-2988.427.7%1,082,484
30-3496.930.3%1,256,089
35-3955.717.5%727,371
40-4412.74.0%160,042
45-491.10.3%12,639
50-540.00.0%189