Fertility in Northern Europe, 2025

Northern Europe
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.50
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 Northern Europe is projected at 1.50 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 (103 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 31.3 years old. In total, 1,039,377 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.50
Births
1,039,377
Births per 1,000 people
9.5
Mean age of mothers
31.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
1.7%
Net reproduction rate
0.72
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.5
Population
109,499,697
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%62
15-195.71.9%18,122
20-2434.111.4%104,904
25-2980.326.8%265,758
30-34103.234.4%373,613
35-3960.420.2%218,977
40-4414.84.9%53,225
45-491.40.5%4,659
50-540.00.0%57