Fertility in Peru, 2024

Peru
2024
Total fertility rate: 1.96
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 Peru is projected at 1.96 children per woman in 2024 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (95 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 538,952 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.96
Births
538,952
Births per 1,000 people
15.8
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.4%
Net reproduction rate
0.94
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.1
Population
34,217,848
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
10-141.90.5%2,651
15-1942.910.9%61,236
20-2484.421.4%117,138
25-2994.924.1%132,818
30-3485.421.7%118,961
35-3960.415.3%78,814
40-4421.75.5%25,118
45-492.10.5%2,209
50-540.00.0%7