Fertility in Turkey, 2026

Turkey
2026
Total fertility rate: 1.62
Births per 1,000 women, by age of mother
2026 1996, 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   2026  +1 +5

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The total fertility rate of Turkey is projected at 1.62 children per woman in 2026 — below the replacement level of about 2.1. Births are projected to be most frequent among women aged 25-29 (107 per 1,000 women in that age group), and the average mother would be 29.5 years old. In total, 1,045,681 babies are projected to be born. Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects 2024 (medium-variant projection).

Total fertility rate
1.62
Births
1,045,681
Births per 1,000 people
11.9
Mean age of mothers
29.5
Births to mothers aged 15–19
3.0%
Net reproduction rate
0.78
Boys per 100 girls at birth
104.9
Population
87,926,082
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
10-140.00.0%73
15-199.83.0%30,873
20-2462.719.3%187,474
25-29107.433.1%361,142
30-3489.927.7%291,866
35-3943.013.2%137,307
40-4410.23.2%33,001
45-491.10.4%3,737
50-540.10.0%208