Fertility in South America, 2025

South America
2025
Total fertility rate: 1.69
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

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-5 -1   2025  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of South America is projected at 1.69 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 (82 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 27.9 years old. In total, 5,604,510 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.69
Births
5,604,510
Births per 1,000 people
12.8
Mean age of mothers
27.9
Births to mothers aged 15–19
12.6%
Net reproduction rate
0.81
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.6
Population
438,105,374
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
10-141.70.5%27,506
15-1944.013.0%707,255
20-2481.524.1%1,339,739
25-2982.224.3%1,394,021
30-3468.920.4%1,157,282
35-3944.413.1%736,465
40-4414.14.2%227,722
45-491.00.3%14,491
50-540.00.0%29