Fertility in Peru, 2025

Peru
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.94
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

Year

-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Peru is projected at 1.94 children per woman in 2025 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (94 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 28.8 years old. In total, 535,695 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.94
Births
535,695
Births per 1,000 people
15.5
Mean age of mothers
28.8
Births to mothers aged 15–19
11.2%
Net reproduction rate
0.93
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.1
Population
34,576,665
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%2,572
15-1942.110.8%59,862
20-2482.721.2%115,422
25-2993.924.1%131,294
30-3484.921.8%118,856
35-3960.215.5%79,998
40-4421.55.5%25,493
45-492.10.5%2,192
50-540.00.0%6