Fertility in Paraguay, 2026

Paraguay
2026
Total fertility rate: 2.37
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2026 1996, 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   2026  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Paraguay is projected at 2.37 children per woman in 2026 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (116 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.6 years old. In total, 134,692 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
2.37
Births
134,692
Births per 1,000 people
19.0
Mean age of mothers
27.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
15.0%
Net reproduction rate
1.13
Boys per 100 girls at birth
105.0
Population
7,095,279
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
10-142.60.6%842
15-1969.214.6%20,256
20-24111.123.4%31,141
25-29115.824.4%33,690
30-3498.220.7%28,377
35-3958.012.2%15,789
40-4418.53.9%4,398
45-491.10.2%200
50-540.00.0%0