Fertility in Peru, 2017

Peru
2017
Total fertility rate: 2.15
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2017 1987, 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   2017  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Peru was 2.15 children per woman in 2017 — above the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 25-29 (103 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 28.6 years old. In total, 540,470 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
2.15
Births
540,470
Births per 1,000 people
17.3
Mean age of mothers
28.6
Births to mothers aged 15–19
12.6%
Net reproduction rate
1.02
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.0
Population
31,324,637
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
10-142.30.5%3,188
15-1950.711.8%67,940
20-2496.022.3%128,876
25-29102.523.8%135,214
30-3490.220.9%110,079
35-3962.914.6%68,878
40-4423.85.5%23,887
45-492.70.6%2,382
50-540.00.0%26