Fertility in Paraguay, 2024

Paraguay
2024
Total fertility rate: 2.42
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 Paraguay is projected at 2.42 children per woman in 2024 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (118 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.7 years old. In total, 136,695 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.42
Births
136,695
Births per 1,000 people
19.7
Mean age of mothers
27.7
Births to mothers aged 15–19
14.8%
Net reproduction rate
1.15
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
6,929,153
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
10-142.70.6%818
15-1970.214.5%20,197
20-24113.723.5%32,380
25-29117.824.4%34,778
30-3499.920.6%28,557
35-3958.912.2%15,442
40-4419.54.0%4,316
45-491.20.2%205
50-540.00.0%0