Fertility in Southern Europe, 2008

Southern Europe
2008
Total fertility rate: 1.47
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2008 1978, 30 years earlier
Hover a column for the exact rate. Adding up all the rates (× 5 years ÷ 1,000) gives the total fertility rate.
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The total fertility rate of Southern Europe was 1.47 children per woman in 2008 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births were most frequent among women aged 30-34 (93 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother was 30.3 years old. In total, 1,587,611 babies were born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024.

Total fertility rate
1.47
Births
1,587,611
Births per 1,000 people
10.4
Mean age of mothers
30.3
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.1%
Net reproduction rate
0.70
Boys per 100 girls at birth
106.4
Population
153,239,912
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
10-140.20.1%570
15-1912.04.1%48,623
20-2446.015.6%201,657
25-2978.826.8%408,974
30-3492.931.6%544,754
35-3953.218.1%315,768
40-4410.73.6%63,998
45-490.60.2%3,246
50-540.00.0%18